# Java Api
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/java-api/4756
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 2, 2011, 11:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/java-api/4756 "2011-07-02T11:31:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@nachiket](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nachiket)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2011, 11:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/java-api/4756/1 "2011-07-02T11:31:11Z")
Hi. There is very less documentation on Java api. I could not figure
out even how to build simple queries like termQuery. Can somebody
help ??
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2011, 11:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/java-api/4756/2 "2011-07-02T11:36:52Z")
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>
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Show a working example
David 😉
Le 2 juil. 2011 à 13:31, nachiket bhagwat [nachiketbhagwat@gmail.com](mailto:nachiketbhagwat@gmail.com) a écrit :
> Hi. There is very less documentation on Java api. I could not figure
> out even how to build simple queries like termQuery. Can somebody
> help ??
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### Author:  [@nachiket](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nachiket)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2011, 11:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/java-api/4756/3 "2011-07-02T11:52:29Z")
Hi David. I have tried using the query you gave reference of. But it
is also not working. What I cant understand is how termQuery is
working without being part of any class. If it is part of a class how
termQuery("multi", "test") is running without initializing termquery
first.
On Jul 2, 4:36 pm, David Pilato [da...@pilato.fr](mailto:da...@pilato.fr) wrote:
> [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/java-api/search.html)
>
> Show a working example
>
> David 😉
>
> Le 2 juil. 2011 à 13:31, nachiket bhagwat [nachiketbhag...@gmail.com](mailto:nachiketbhag...@gmail.com) a écrit :
>
> > Hi. There is very less documentation on Java api. I could not figure
> > out even how to build simple queries like termQuery. Can somebody
> > help ??
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### Author:  [@nachiket](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nachiket)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2011, 12:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/java-api/4756/4 "2011-07-02T12:01:01Z")
Ok I tried QueryBuilders.termQuery and it worked. But now it is
showing a different error.
SearchResponse response = client.prepareSearch("test")
.setSearchType(SearchType.DFS\_QUERY\_THEN\_FETCH)
.setQuery(QueryBuilders.termQuery( "user" , "new"))
.setFrom(0).setSize(60).setExplain(true)) \<\<\<- Error here.
Syntax error on token ")", delete this token
.execute()
.actionGet();
On Jul 2, 4:52 pm, nachiket bhagwat [nachiketbhag...@gmail.com](mailto:nachiketbhag...@gmail.com) wrote:
> Hi David. I have tried using the query you gave reference of. But it
> is also not working. What I cant understand is how termQuery is
> working without being part of any class. If it is part of a class how
> termQuery("multi", "test") is running without initializing termquery
> first.
>
> On Jul 2, 4:36 pm, David Pilato [da...@pilato.fr](mailto:da...@pilato.fr) wrote:
>
> > [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/java-api/search.html)
>
> > Show a working example
>
> > David 😉
>
> > Le 2 juil. 2011 à 13:31, nachiket bhagwat [nachiketbhag...@gmail.com](mailto:nachiketbhag...@gmail.com) a écrit :
>
> > > Hi. There is very less documentation on Java api. I could not figure
> > > out even how to build simple queries like termQuery. Can somebody
> > > help ??
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### Author:  [@Hari\_Shankar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Hari_Shankar)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2011, 2:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/java-api/4756/5 "2011-07-02T14:47:23Z")
Hi,
Do what it says.. delete the ")" bracket, there is a bracket mismatch! I am
also new to es, and it is true that there could be more documentation of the
Java API, and I too struggled a bit initially with it, but it is actually
not that difficult to figure it out, knowing that the REST API internally
uses the Java API. Just compare the Java API examples side-by-side with the
corresponding REST API and you'll see the pattern.
Hari
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 5:31 PM, nachiket bhagwat
[nachiketbhagwat@gmail.com](mailto:nachiketbhagwat@gmail.com)wrote:
> Ok I tried QueryBuilders.termQuery and it worked. But now it is
> showing a different error.
>
> SearchResponse response = client.prepareSearch("test")
> .setSearchType(SearchType.DFS\_QUERY\_THEN\_FETCH)
> .setQuery(QueryBuilders.termQuery( "user" , "new"))
> .setFrom(0).setSize(60).setExplain(true)) \<\<\<- Error here.
> Syntax error on token ")", delete this token
> .execute()
> .actionGet();
>
> On Jul 2, 4:52 pm, nachiket bhagwat [nachiketbhag...@gmail.com](mailto:nachiketbhag...@gmail.com) wrote:
>
> > Hi David. I have tried using the query you gave reference of. But it
> > is also not working. What I cant understand is how termQuery is
> > working without being part of any class. If it is part of a class how
> > termQuery("multi", "test") is running without initializing termquery
> > first.
> >
> > On Jul 2, 4:36 pm, David Pilato [da...@pilato.fr](mailto:da...@pilato.fr) wrote:
> >
> > > [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/java-api/search.html)
> >
> > > Show a working example
> >
> > > David 😉
> >
> > > Le 2 juil. 2011 à 13:31, nachiket bhagwat [nachiketbhag...@gmail.com](mailto:nachiketbhag...@gmail.com)
> > > a écrit :
> >
> > > > Hi. There is very less documentation on Java api. I could not figure
> > > > out even how to build simple queries like termQuery. Can somebody
> > > > help ??
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 4:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/java-api/4756/6 "2017-07-06T04:02:01Z")