After much searching about javadocs for the API, all I find is people asking this question. . . Why has no standard documentation been provided for the API? I haven't found a good response either. I see people have been asking for this for over four years now. Without documentation, I don't really know whether I'm reinventing wheels that already exist. The only documentation for Java is the 'by-example' documentation provided here: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/java-api/current/index.html
You are raising a very good point here. There has been work being done to to cleanup the situation on master here:
More on the status of online accessible JavaDocs here:
https://github.com/elastic/infra/issues/427
As far as I can see the full story is here: Provide online Javadocs · Issue #1203 · elastic/elasticsearch · GitHub
My personal take from those issues: Any helping hand (in the form of pull requests) is highly welcome.
Sorry for not having better news,
Isabel
FWIW, there's a lingering pull request for re-enabling publishing of the Javadoc artifact: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/14935
It's just waiting to be merged (and it needs to be decided whether the doclint errors should be fixed first or simply ignored).
Thank you! That is very helpful.
You have no idea how much time this has saved me. Thanks so much!
April 2016 - Still no JavaDocs? The links provided to older docs (at xbib.org) aren't working.
I found JavaDocs at:
https://www.javadoc.io/doc/org.elasticsearch/elasticsearch/2.3.0
and
http://javadoc.kyubu.de/elasticsearch/HEAD/
AFAIK it's there: http://search.maven.org/#artifactdetails|org.elasticsearch|elasticsearch|2.3.1|jar
Thanks! Yet another hiding place. Thank you for this good link.