Indices Exists API
editIndices Exists API
editIndices Exists Request
editThe high-level REST client uses a GetIndexRequest
for Indices Exists API. The index name (or indices' names) are required.
Optional arguments
editIndices Exists API also accepts following optional arguments, through a GetIndexRequest
:
Synchronous Execution
editWhen executing a GetIndexRequest
in the following manner, the client waits
for the boolean
to be returned before continuing with code execution:
boolean exists = client.indices().exists(request, RequestOptions.DEFAULT);
Synchronous calls may throw an IOException
in case of either failing to
parse the REST response in the high-level REST client, the request times out
or similar cases where there is no response coming back from the server.
In cases where the server returns a 4xx
or 5xx
error code, the high-level
client tries to parse the response body error details instead and then throws
a generic ElasticsearchException
and adds the original ResponseException
as a
suppressed exception to it.
Asynchronous Execution
editExecuting a GetIndexRequest
can also be done in an asynchronous fashion so that
the client can return directly. Users need to specify how the response or
potential failures will be handled by passing the request and a listener to the
asynchronous indices-exists method:
The asynchronous method does not block and returns immediately. Once it is
completed the ActionListener
is called back using the onResponse
method
if the execution successfully completed or using the onFailure
method if
it failed. Failure scenarios and expected exceptions are the same as in the
synchronous execution case.
A typical listener for indices-exists
looks like:
Response
editThe response is a boolean
value, indicating whether the index (or indices) exist.