Yo,
Just pushed support for exposing elasticsearch REST interface over
thrift, more info here:
http://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/closed#issue/354. Still
some things I would like to improve (especially if there is support for
async handling of requests in an async manner on the server).
Would love for people to check it out and see how it fares against HTTP
with your favorite language. It should be simple to move to use it since its
very similar to HTTP usage (assuming you manage to get the thrift part out
of your way for your lang).
-shay.banon