Testing rest clients in Java

[gringogordo]

I would like to add some basic tests into my Java app. I'm using es 5.6 with low & high level rest client. Essentially, at this early stage I would just like to create an index, add some documents & validate them. Having had a 1/2 hour scoot around the web I'm thinking the easiest thing to do is to just create an index on the local server (dev/test etc) and then tear it down at the end.

It strikes me that if there is a failure in the process I will leave some 'orphaned' mini indexes in place but I can probably live with that and maybe even write some code to list indexes and tidy the node at some later point (or just restore a clean node!).

Anyway I was just wondering if this is a reasonable approach or whether there is some kind of clever (in memory ?) process to do this off the main elasticSearch installation ? (Even better if someone has some code to help a simpleton onto the right track but really I'm mainly looking for guidance as to the approach I should take.

Thanks

[dadoonet (David Pilato)]

You can read:

In memory testing with RestHighLevelClient

This will not happen. To do integration tests, you can: Use the Gradle tools elasticsearch already has. You can read some information about this here: #21119. This sample project shows how to use Elasticsearch Test Classes Use the Maven plugin: GitHub - alexcojocaru/elasticsearch-maven-plugin: A Maven plugin to run a single node Elasticsearch cluster during the integration test phase of a build Use Ant scripts like http://david.pilato.fr/blog/2016/10/18/elasticsearch-real-integration-tests-…

[gringogordo]

Thanks and apologies for not finding that for myself, I kept getting results more pertinent to previous versions. Let me know if I should delete this post & immolate myself StackOverflow style

[dadoonet (David Pilato)]

I had hard time TBH to find my own answer!