# Access to SearchSourceBuilder sourceBuilder for debugging **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [September 14, 2010, 9:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/access-to-searchsourcebuilder-sourcebuilder-for-debugging/3335 "2010-09-14T21:55:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ppearcy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ppearcy/32/980_2.png) [@ppearcy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ppearcy)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2010, 9:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/access-to-searchsourcebuilder-sourcebuilder-for-debugging/3335/1 "2010-09-14T21:55:16Z")
Hey, Currently using the Java API and am building up a SearchRequestBuilder object. I see that internally, SearchRequestBuilder keeps a SearchSourceBuilder member(sourceBuilder) that is private. I would like to be able to provide some debug logging that would allow a developer to copy and paste a curl command to run a query and debug. In order to do this, I am currently instantiating my own SearchSourceBuilder and calling the methods on it that SearchRequestBuilder calls on its own internal sourceBuilder. Afterwards, I instantiate a BinaryXContentBuilder and populate it with a call like this: BinaryXContentBuilder content = jsonBuilder(); debugSearchSource.toXContent(content, null); And finally, get the search json with a call like: content.string(); Is there anyway to get access to the SearchRequestBuilder's sourceBuilder, so I don't have to mirror the method calls to my copy or is there a better way to accomplish this that I have overlooked? A debug method to get the SearchRequestBuilder sourceBuilder as string or similar would be convenient for this case. Thanks, Paul ---
**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 10:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/access-to-searchsourcebuilder-sourcebuilder-for-debugging/3335/2 "2010-09-15T10:44:11Z")
Pushed SearchRequestBuilder#internalBuilder(). Note, this should only be used in debug mode, and only make sense when generation json and not the binary smile format (on it I will post in a minute). -shay.banon On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Paul [ppearcy@gmail.com](mailto:ppearcy@gmail.com) wrote: > Hey, > Currently using the Java API and am building up a > SearchRequestBuilder object. I see that internally, > SearchRequestBuilder keeps a SearchSourceBuilder member(sourceBuilder) > that is private. > > I would like to be able to provide some debug logging that would allow > a developer to copy and paste a curl command to run a query and debug. > In order to do this, I am currently instantiating my own > SearchSourceBuilder and calling the methods on it that > SearchRequestBuilder calls on its own internal sourceBuilder. > > Afterwards, I instantiate a BinaryXContentBuilder and populate it with > a call like this: > BinaryXContentBuilder content = jsonBuilder(); > debugSearchSource.toXContent(content, null); > > And finally, get the search json with a call like: > content.string(); > > Is there anyway to get access to the SearchRequestBuilder's > sourceBuilder, so I don't have to mirror the method calls to my copy > or is there a better way to accomplish this that I have overlooked? A > debug method to get the SearchRequestBuilder sourceBuilder as string > or similar would be convenient for this case. > > Thanks, > Paul ---
**Author:** ![ppearcy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ppearcy/32/980_2.png) [@ppearcy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ppearcy)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 3:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/access-to-searchsourcebuilder-sourcebuilder-for-debugging/3335/3 "2010-09-15T15:14:38Z")
Great, thanks! On Sep 15, 4:44 am, Shay Banon [shay.ba...@elasticsearch.com](mailto:shay.ba...@elasticsearch.com) wrote: > Pushed SearchRequestBuilder#internalBuilder(). Note, this should only be > used in debug mode, and only make sense when generation json and not the > binary smile format (on it I will post in a minute). > > -shay.banon > > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Paul [ppea...@gmail.com](mailto:ppea...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > Hey, > > Currently using the Java API and am building up a > > SearchRequestBuilder object. I see that internally, > > SearchRequestBuilder keeps a SearchSourceBuilder member(sourceBuilder) > > that is private. > > > I would like to be able to provide some debug logging that would allow > > a developer to copy and paste a curl command to run a query and debug. > > In order to do this, I am currently instantiating my own > > SearchSourceBuilder and calling the methods on it that > > SearchRequestBuilder calls on its own internal sourceBuilder. > > > Afterwards, I instantiate a BinaryXContentBuilder and populate it with > > a call like this: > > BinaryXContentBuilder content = jsonBuilder(); > > debugSearchSource.toXContent(content, null); > > > And finally, get the search json with a call like: > > content.string(); > > > Is there anyway to get access to the SearchRequestBuilder's > > sourceBuilder, so I don't have to mirror the method calls to my copy > > or is there a better way to accomplish this that I have overlooked? A > > debug method to get the SearchRequestBuilder sourceBuilder as string > > or similar would be convenient for this case. > > > Thanks, > > Paul ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 4:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/access-to-searchsourcebuilder-sourcebuilder-for-debugging/3335/4 "2017-07-06T04:19:18Z")