### Author:  [@sharad\_khandelwal1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sharad_khandelwal1)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2016, 4:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/java-api-for-graph/48076/1 "2016-04-21T16:34:56Z")
Does the current Java ES 2.3 API support graph or we need to use something like JEST ?
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### Author:  [@Mark\_Harwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Harwood)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2016, 8:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/java-api-for-graph/48076/2 "2016-04-22T08:35:56Z")
Hi Sharad,
Below is a demo which obviously depends on core elasticsearch resources and the jar from the xpack plugin for graph:
```
package org.elasticsearch;
import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.util.Collection;
import org.elasticsearch.client.transport.TransportClient;
import org.elasticsearch.common.settings.Settings;
import org.elasticsearch.common.transport.InetSocketTransportAddress;
import org.elasticsearch.graph.GraphPlugin;
import org.elasticsearch.graph.action.GraphExploreAction;
import org.elasticsearch.graph.action.GraphExploreRequestBuilder;
import org.elasticsearch.graph.action.GraphExploreResponse;
import org.elasticsearch.graph.action.Hop;
import org.elasticsearch.graph.action.Vertex;
import org.elasticsearch.index.query.QueryBuilders;
/**
* Demo graph client - find elastic meetup attendees and what other meetup groups they frequent
*/
public class GraphDemoClient {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
TransportClient client = TransportClient.builder()
.settings(Settings.builder()
.put("cluster.name", "elasticsearch")
.build())
.addPlugin(GraphPlugin.class)
.build()
.addTransportAddress(new InetSocketTransportAddress(InetAddress.getByName("localhost"), 9300));
int requiredNumberOfSightings=1;
GraphExploreRequestBuilder grb = new GraphExploreRequestBuilder(client, GraphExploreAction.INSTANCE).setIndices("meetuprsvps");
Hop hop1 = grb.createNextHop(QueryBuilders.termQuery("_all", "elasticsearch"));
// elasticsearch meetup attendees
hop1.addVertexRequest("member_id").size(10).minDocCount(requiredNumberOfSightings);
// groups attended by elastic attendees
grb.createNextHop(null).addVertexRequest("group_id").size(10).minDocCount(requiredNumberOfSightings);
GraphExploreResponse response = grb.get();
Collection vertices = response.getVertices();
System.out.println("==Members===");
for (Vertex vertex : vertices) {
if(vertex.getField().equals("member_id")){
System.out.println(vertex.getTerm());
}
}
System.out.println("==Groups===");
for (Vertex vertex : vertices) {
if(vertex.getField().equals("group_id")){
System.out.println(vertex.getTerm());
}
}
client.close();
}
}
```
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### Author:  [@sharad\_khandelwal1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sharad_khandelwal1)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2016, 1:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/java-api-for-graph/48076/3 "2016-04-23T13:16:54Z")
Hi Mark,
Can you please help me with the Maven details for the graph plugin as I couldn't find it in the maven repo?
-Sharad
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### Author:  [@Mark\_Harwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Harwood)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2016, 7:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/java-api-for-graph/48076/4 "2016-04-24T07:16:35Z")
The graph jar you need is in the graph plugin zip. This zip should be unzipped into the "plugins" directory of elasticsearch as part of installation.
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### Author:  [@hubz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hubz)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2016, 4:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/java-api-for-graph/48076/5 "2016-07-17T16:30:45Z")
if you add the following repository in your pom.xml you should be able to get the dependency properly managed :
```
elastic-plugins
elastic plugins
https://maven.elasticsearch.org/releases/
org.elasticsearch.plugin
graph
2.3.3
```
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### Author:  [@David\_she](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/David_she)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2016, 5:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/java-api-for-graph/48076/6 "2016-11-11T05:13:45Z")
Hi,
I have trawled through the elastic site and google looking for the Java API to use for ElasticSearch Graph. I notice your snippet above but would to have a link to the documentation or a tutorial.
Appreciated
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### Author:  [@ahr12](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ahr12)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2017, 6:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/java-api-for-graph/48076/7 "2017-02-07T06:06:44Z")
Hello Sir,
I am new in elasticSearch. I use your program for creating the graph in elasticSearch and I want to see this graph in Kibana. Can you please help me for this. and how can I use queries on this graph like - shortest path query?
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### Author:  [@Mark\_Harwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Harwood)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2017, 9:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/java-api-for-graph/48076/8 "2017-02-07T09:48:24Z")
> [@ahr12](#):
>
> I want to see this graph in Kibana. Can you please help me for this
Please do not hijack this Java API question with a different topic (UI questions).
I'll answer your questions here but if you want to continue the discussion please open a new question topic.
If you want to view Graphs in Kibana install the x-pack plugin and [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMmod1Hg92s) is an example of how to configure the UI.
> [@ahr12](#):
>
> how can I use queries on this graph like - shortest path query?
That would be done outside of elasticsearch/kibana currently. We are working on an export-to-GraphML feature which would allow you to use tools like Gephi which offer various Graph algos e.g. shortest-path, centrality measures, community detection etc wrapped up in a UI. If you just want to write code that does graph analysis consider using tools like Python's NetworkX library - [here is an example](https://gist.github.com/markharwood/b8ca11b3ee58223db7cfbdcf6f5ac6bd) calling the Graph API and performing betweenness centrality measures using networkX.
If you want to discuss any of the above further please open a new topic so we can keep this one focused on the Java API.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/java-api-for-graph/48076/9 "2017-07-06T13:42:16Z")