Elasticsearch streams

Expose a Writeable stream for bulk commands and a Readable stream from hits and documents responses.

Use case: pipe to and from levelup, pouchdb and other friends.

The client that executes the requests is wrapped in a closure. It is expected to provide the Elasticsearch reponse's body as a JSON.

See the examples and tests with the official Elasticsearch-js client.

Installation

npm install --save elasticsearch-streams

Examples:

Stream random records into Elasticsearch

var WritableBulk = require('elasticsearch-streams').WritableBulk;
var TransformToBulk = require('elasticsearch-streams').TransformToBulk;
var client = new require('elasticsearch').Client();

var bulkExec = function(bulkCmds, callback) {
  client.bulk({
    index : 'myindex',
    type  : 'mytype',
    body  : bulkCmds
  }, callback);
};
var ws = new WritableBulk(bulkExec);
var toBulk = new TransformToBulk(function getIndexTypeId(doc) { return { _id: doc.id }; });
// stream 42 random records into ES
require('random-document-stream')(42).pipe(toBulk).pipe(ws).on('finish', done);

NOTE: One must listen to the close event emitted by the write stream to know when all the data has been written and flushed to Elasticsearch.

Listening to finish does not mean much really as we are in this situation: https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/5315#issuecomment-16670354

For example to close the ES client as soon as we are done:

ws.on('close', function () {
  client.close();
});

Stream search results from Elasticsearch

var ReadableSearch = require('elasticsearch-streams').ReadableSearch;
var client = new require('elasticsearch').Client();

var searchExec = function searchExec(from, callback) {
  client.search({
    index: 'myindex',
    from: from,
    size: 12,
    body: {
      query: { match_all: {} }
    }
  }, callback);
};

var rs = new ReadableSearch(searchExec);
var ws = new require('stream').Writable({objectMode:true});
ws._write = function(chunk, enc, next) {
  console.log('a hit', hit);
  next();
};

rs.pipe(ws).on('close', done);

If we want to start the stream at an offset and define a limit:

var offset = 7;
var limit  = 21;
var page   = 12;

var searchExec = function searchExec(from, callback) {
  client.search({
    index: 'myindex',
    from: from + offset,
    size: (offset + from + page) > limit ? (limit - offset - from) : page,
    body: {
      query: { match_all: {} }
    }
  }, callback);
};

Stream scroll/scan results from Elasticsearch

var scrollExec = function scrollExec(from, callback) {
  if (this.scroll_id) {
    return client.scroll({
      scrollId : this.scroll_id,
      scroll   : '30s'
    }, callback);
  }
  // get a scroll id first
  var self = this;
  client.search({
    index: 'myindex',
    scroll: '20s',
    size: 42,
    body: {
      query: { match_all: {} }
    }
  }, function(e, resp) {
    self.scroll_id = resp._scroll_id;
    callback(e, resp);
  });
};
rs = new ReadableSearch(scrollExec);

Stream IDs into Elasticsearch multi-get and get documents out.

var mgetExec = function(docs, callback) {
  client.mget({
    index: 'myindex',
    type: 'mytype',
    body: {
      docs: { ids: docs }
    }
  }, callback);
};
ts = new PipableDocs(mgetExec, 4);

// Naive read stream of 12 ids that are numbers
var rs = new require('stream').Readable({objectMode: true});
rs._read = function() {
  for (var i = 0; i < 12; i++) {
    rs.push(i);
  }
  rs.push(null);
};

var ws = new require('stream').Writable({objectMode:true});
ws._write = function(chunk, enc, next) {
  console.log(hit._id + ' found: ' + hit._found, hit);
  next();
};

rs.pipe(ts).pipe(ws).on('finish', onFinish);

LICENSE

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