# Elastic Search Pluggable REST End point (POST)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-pluggable-rest-end-point-post/10055>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 12, 2012, 6:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-pluggable-rest-end-point-post/10055 "2012-12-12T18:52:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Prasanna\_Paulraj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/45deac/32.png) [@Prasanna\_Paulraj](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Prasanna_Paulraj)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 6:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-pluggable-rest-end-point-post/10055/1 "2012-12-12T18:52:33Z")

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Hi All,

I am new to elastic search and I am trying to develop a pluggable rest end  
point. Can some one point me to some tutorial or info on how to work with  
POST request. I got some examples but they are for GET request. Couldn't  
find any thing for POST.

Thanks,  
Prasanna

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**Author:** ![Ivan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/df788c/32.png) [@Ivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2012, 7:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-pluggable-rest-end-point-post/10055/2 "2012-12-12T19:32:47Z")

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Both Jörg Prante and I have written tutorials on the subject.

Tutorial:

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Code: [GitHub - brusic/elasticsearch-hello-world-plugin: Tutorial on how to create a new REST endpoint in elasticsearch](https://github.com/brusic/elasticsearch-hello-world-plugin)

Tutorial:  
[http://jprante.github.com/lessons/2012/03/27/Writing-a-simple-plugin-for-Elasticsearch.html](http://jprante.github.com/lessons/2012/03/27/Writing-a-simple-plugin-for-Elasticsearch.html)  
Code: [GitHub - jprante/elasticsearch-index-termlist: Elasticsearch Index Termlist](https://github.com/jprante/elasticsearch-index-termlist)

The Action class, which is bound to the RestModule via the plugin, will  
register various action with the rest controller. Using my code as an  
example:

> <https://github.com/brusic/elasticsearch-hello-world-plugin/blob/master/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/rest/action/helloworld/HelloWorldAction.java>

controller.registerHandler(GET, "/\_hello/", this);  
controller.registerHandler(GET, "/\_hello/{name}", this);

You would need to simply define these as POST and not GET.

Hope this helps,

Ivan

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Prasanna Paulraj  
[pras.success@gmail.com](mailto:pras.success@gmail.com)wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I am new to Elasticsearch and I am trying to develop a pluggable rest end  
> point. Can some one point me to some tutorial or info on how to work with  
> POST request. I got some examples but they are for GET request. Couldn't  
> find any thing for POST.
> 
> Thanks,  
> Prasanna
> 
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**Author:** ![Alexandra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alexandra/32/1521_2.png) [@Alexandra](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alexandra)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 9:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-pluggable-rest-end-point-post/10055/3 "2014-06-03T09:36:16Z")

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Hei,

I'm also trying to write a custom plugin , which can also be called straight from java with a transport client. My plugin only needs to use existing features like search, analyze ( I'm building it in order to go less to es and do everything on the server side ).

In the BaseRestHandler class I can easily access the client. But when I'm trying to build the hierarchy for the java execution ( action, request, response, builder ) I don't have access to a client which exposes to me all these actions.  
It's not clear to me which base classes should I extend in order to be able to use it. Also, I don't need to do something specific for each shard, I would like the client to handle everything.

Is it possible to do this ? Can you please point me in the right direction because I've been struggling with this for days now.

Thanks,  
Alexandra

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**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, 1:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-pluggable-rest-end-point-post/10055/4 "2017-07-06T01:25:01Z")

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