Best ways to get into the code of elasticsearch?

qohelet · November 18, 2020, 12:56pm

I'm a FOSS-enthusiast and started to fiddle around with elasticsearch.
I like the implementation and the possibilities on how to set up the queries.

Despite developing Java for quite a while I haven't worked with Gradle and can't say ad-hoc how the server is set up and the workflow. Is there some kind of developer documentation in order to play with the code myself?
I have found https://www.elastic.co/guide/index.html already but after going through it a little it doesn't seem to be what I'm looking for.
Thank you!

dadoonet · November 18, 2020, 3:31pm

Welcome!

I'd start from:

github.com

elastic/elasticsearch/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#contributing-to-the-elasticsearch-codebase

Contributing to elasticsearch
=============================

Elasticsearch is an open source project and we love to receive contributions from our community — you! There are many ways to contribute, from writing tutorials or blog posts, improving the documentation, submitting bug reports and feature requests or writing code which can be incorporated into Elasticsearch itself.

If you want to be rewarded for your contributions, sign up for the [Elastic Contributor Program](https://www.elastic.co/community/contributor). Each time you
make a valid contribution, you’ll earn points that increase your chances of winning prizes and being recognized as a top contributor.

Bug reports
-----------

If you think you have found a bug in Elasticsearch, first make sure that you are testing against the [latest version of Elasticsearch](https://www.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch) - your issue may already have been fixed. If not, search our [issues list](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues) on GitHub in case a similar issue has already been opened.

It is very helpful if you can prepare a reproduction of the bug. In other words, provide a small test case which we can run to confirm your bug. It makes it easier to find the problem and to fix it. Test cases should be provided as `curl` commands which we can copy and paste into a terminal to run it locally, for example:

```sh
# delete the index
curl -XDELETE localhost:9200/test

# insert a document

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system · December 16, 2020, 3:32pm

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