Initializing a SearchResponse object to null with the high level REST client

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Can anyone shed light on how to achieve this initialization or a workaround? I am trying to initialize the SearchResponse object before a conditional loop and populate the object inside the loop. The motivation is to make my code concise and easily maintainable.

My question on stack overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61150500/initialize-an-elasticsearch-searchresponse-object-before-running-a-query

Documentation: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/java-rest/current/java-rest-high-search.html#java-rest-high-search-response

Cheers!
-Gideon

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Welcome !

As the SearchResponse object is an object generated by the HLClient, I don't understand why you would initialize it.

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Thank you, David. I must initialize the searchResponse object here (rather , then inside of the if loops), so that I can reference the object to calculate totalHits, elapsed time and facets (aggregation) data from the response after the if-loops. Otherwise, I will need to create the searchResponse object inside of the if loop that executes and will need to include the code that calculates totalHits, etcetera multiple times - once inside of each if loop.

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Why do you need to initialize something that will be overwritten by the call of search of the elasticsearch client?

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Good question. The reason is so that I can still reference the object after the loop.

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Ended up just calling a new function that wraps together the lines of code that compute totalHits, elapsed time and aggregation data. Now I just call that one function in each conditional.

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