Index Exists API

The high-level REST client uses a GetIndexRequest for Index Exists API. The index name (or indices' names) are required.

GetIndexRequest request = new GetIndexRequest("twitter"); 

Index exists API also accepts following optional arguments, through a GetIndexRequest:

request.local(false); 
request.humanReadable(true); 
request.includeDefaults(false); 
request.indicesOptions(indicesOptions); 

When 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.

Executing 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:

client.indices().existsAsync(request, RequestOptions.DEFAULT, listener); 

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:

ActionListener<Boolean> listener = new ActionListener<Boolean>() {
    @Override
    public void onResponse(Boolean exists) {
        
    }

    @Override
    public void onFailure(Exception e) {
        
    }
};

The response is a boolean value, indicating whether the index (or indices) exist.