Percolator match queries not working with http GET with body

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Using Elasticsearch 2.3 - my JVM app server doesn't support sending a body with a http GET request. According to the percolator documentation:

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-percolate.html#_sample_usage

when I want to match documents against registered queries, I need to send my query in with the body of a GET http request. I need to find a workaround... is there another way to send in my document?

Also, the Head plugin doesn't work either... when I try to test my queries, Head basically sends my query as a queryparam in my url, which generates an error:

"type": "illegal_argument_exception",
"reason": "Nothing to percolate"

So, right now I'm dead in the water. I added all my percolator queries, and now I have no way to either test them (using Head) or access them from my server (web app).

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The percolate api also support http post. Have you tried that?

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Yes, POST seems to work... I didn't think so at first because I wasn't getting any results back and it took a very long time, I guess I need to tighten up my queries so they're not so expensive. It took 31 seconds to search 5000 queries. Does that seem right?

4

Depending of the complexity of the document you're percolating, your percolator queries and the resources of your cluster this is possible.

The upcoming ES 5 release can perhaps improve your performance: