[ANNOUNCEMENT] Node based proxy server for Elastic Search

Lukas_Vlcek1 · October 22, 2010, 2:03pm

Hi,

I implemented proxy server for Elastic Search in Node. It can be found
here: http://github.com/lukas-vlcek/node.es
Basically it provides the following for you:

It can restrict access to Elastic Search HTTP REST API (by default it
exposes safe operations only).
You can provide handlers to modify HTTP client request (e.g. you can
ensure that size is not too big) and Elastic Search response (e.g. you can
remove sensitive data).
It round-robin client requests among active HTTP enabled nodes (it
periodically refreshes list of active nodes), thus, it can provide a single
URL for clients to communicate with Elastic Search cluster.

More detailed documentation can be found in the source code:

github.com

lukas-vlcek/node.es/blob/master/proxy/elasticsearch-proxy.js

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    ElasticSearch proxy server for NodeJS.

    It provides the following functions:

    - It can expose only part of the REST API (can be configure by rules using regular expressions). By default it

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The code is still quite new and a bit sketchy at some parts but I would love
to get some feedback.

Regards,
Lukas

kimchy · October 22, 2010, 3:48pm

This looks great lukas!, hopefully this will also be the home for a node.js
client for elasticsearch.

-shay.banon

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Lukáš Vlček lukas.vlcek@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

I implemented proxy server for Elastic Search in Node. It can be found
here: GitHub - lukas-vlcek/node.es: Node gadgets for Elastic Search
Basically it provides the following for you:

It can restrict access to Elastic Search HTTP REST API (by default it
exposes safe operations only).

You can provide handlers to modify HTTP client request (e.g. you can
ensure that size is not too big) and Elastic Search response (e.g. you can
remove sensitive data).

It round-robin client requests among active HTTP enabled nodes (it
periodically refreshes list of active nodes), thus, it can provide a single
URL for clients to communicate with Elastic Search cluster.

More detailed documentation can be found in the source code:
http://github.com/lukas-vlcek/node.es/blob/master/proxy/elasticsearch-proxy.js
The code is still quite new and a bit sketchy at some parts but I would
love to get some feedback.

Regards,
Lukas