What's the best way in java or groovy to determine the existence of an index given it's name

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Hi Folks,
There's code in our base (I didnt write, but inherited) like this,
seems like there has to be a better way?
Also when instantiating a new IndexStatusRequest, does the resulting
object contains all the known indexes?
Is there a true javadoc on this "low level" stuff
The only think related on the site I saw was this
http://www.elasticsearch.com/docs/elasticsearch/java_api/admin/
I've resorted to looking at method sigs (in my ide) and guessing
Is there a best way to build the javadoc?

BTW were upgrading from .9 to .12.1
Thanks
Gideon

private boolean testIndexExists(indexName) {
def statusResponse
boolean retValue = false

    try {
        statusResponse = client.admin().indices().status(new

IndicesStatusRequest()).actionGet() // check first to see if it
doesn't exist or get an exception if trying to create existing
if (statusResponse.index(indexName) != null) retValue =
true //statusRespopnse if of type IndexStatusResponse -
public org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.IndexStatus
index(java.lang.String index) { /* compiled code */ }
} catch(IndexMissingException ime) { // I used to be able to
check the statusresponse now I will get an IME so treat both the same
logger.debug "Hit an indexedmissingexception in index
test"
retValue = false
}

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http://elasticsearch-users.115913.n3.nabble.com/Finding-out-if-an-index-exists-td1820921.html#a1820921

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Gideon Kaplan gideonkaplan@gmail.comwrote:

Hi Folks,
There's code in our base (I didnt write, but inherited) like this,
seems like there has to be a better way?
Also when instantiating a new IndexStatusRequest, does the resulting
object contains all the known indexes?
Is there a true javadoc on this "low level" stuff
The only think related on the site I saw was this
http://www.elasticsearch.com/docs/elasticsearch/java_api/admin/
I've resorted to looking at method sigs (in my ide) and guessing
Is there a best way to build the javadoc?

BTW were upgrading from .9 to .12.1
Thanks
Gideon

private boolean testIndexExists(indexName) {
def statusResponse
boolean retValue = false

   try {
       statusResponse = client.admin().indices().status(new

IndicesStatusRequest()).actionGet() // check first to see if it
doesn't exist or get an exception if trying to create existing
if (statusResponse.index(indexName) != null) retValue =
true //statusRespopnse if of type IndexStatusResponse -
public org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.IndexStatus
index(java.lang.String index) { /* compiled code */ }
} catch(IndexMissingException ime) { // I used to be able to
check the statusresponse now I will get an IME so treat both the same
logger.debug "Hit an indexedmissingexception in index
test"
retValue = false
}

3

Thanks James

On Nov 9, 5:47 pm, James Cook jc...@tracermedia.com wrote:

http://elasticsearch-users.115913.n3.nabble.com/Finding-out-if-an-ind...

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Gideon Kaplan gideonkap...@gmail.comwrote:

Hi Folks,
There's code in our base (I didnt write, but inherited) like this,
seems like there has to be a better way?
Also when instantiating a new IndexStatusRequest, does the resulting
object contains all the known indexes?
Is there a true javadoc on this "low level" stuff
The only think related on the site I saw was this
http://www.elasticsearch.com/docs/elasticsearch/java_api/admin/
I've resorted to looking at method sigs (in my ide) and guessing
Is there a best way to build the javadoc?

BTW were upgrading from .9 to .12.1
Thanks
Gideon

private boolean testIndexExists(indexName) {
def statusResponse
boolean retValue = false

   try {
       statusResponse = client.admin().indices().status(new

IndicesStatusRequest()).actionGet() // check first to see if it
doesn't exist or get an exception if trying to create existing
if (statusResponse.index(indexName) != null) retValue =
true //statusRespopnse if of type IndexStatusResponse -
public org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.status.IndexStatus
index(java.lang.String index) { /* compiled code */ }
} catch(IndexMissingException ime) { // I used to be able to
check the statusresponse now I will get an IME so treat both the same
logger.debug "Hit an indexedmissingexception in index
test"
retValue = false
}