[SOLVED] Bulk loading JSON object as document into elasticsearch

Bulk loading JSON object as document into elasticsearch

Is there a way to bulk load the data below into elasticsearch without modifying the original content? I POST each object to be a single document. At the moment I'm using Python to parse through individual objects and POST them one at a time.

{
   {"name": "A"},
   {"name": "B"},
   {"name": "C"},
   {"name": "D"},
}

Doing this type of processing in production from REST servers into elasticsearch is taking a lot of time.

Is there a single POST/curl command that can upload the file above at once and elasticsearch parses it and makes each object into its own document?

We're using elasticsearch 1.3.2

Solution

Yes, you can do bulk api via curl by using the _bulk endpoint. But not custom parsing. Whatever process that creates the file can format it to ES specification if that is an option. See here:

http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-bulk.html

There is also bulk support in python via helper. See here: http://elasticsearch-py.readthedocs.org/en/master/helpers.html