DevOps Classroom Series – 28/Nov/2020

Representation State Transfer (REST) API

• REST determines how API looks like.
• In REST API we send Requests from Client to Server.
• Anatomy of Request
  • Endpoint:
    • route or url for your request
  • Method: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE
  • Headers:
  • Data (body): mostly json content

CRUD Operations

• Elastic search exposes well-designed REST API by using them we can perform CRUD (Create, Retrieve, Update and Delete)
• Refer Here for rest api documentation of elastic search

Index API

• Refer Here for official docs of index api
• Lets create a new request for a student by providing id
• Lets explore apis
  • Get a document from students which has id 1
  • Search all documents in an index
  • Search for documents in multiple indexes
  • Lets search for all documents of particular type in all indexes