Elasticsearch发送获取请求而不发布

Question

This is my code for sending a GET request to my elasticseach server:

var client = new elasticsearch.Client({
    host: 'localhost:9200',
    log: 'trace'
});
client.search({
  index: 'deals',
  type: 'couchbaseDocument',
  body: {
    query: {
      match: {
        source: 'doc.amenities'
      }
    }
  }
}).then(function (resp) {
    var hits = resp.hits.hits;
}, function (err) {
    console.trace(err.message);
});

However, this is the actual request that is being send, after checking chrome developing tools :

 POST "http://localhost:9200/deals/couchbaseDocument/_search".

but I need it to be GET not POST

how please?

I already checked the documentation :

and they just say how to send head and post , there is no GET requests

Answer 1

Most browsers do not allow you to append a body to a GET request, which is the reason that the library does not work this way, as well as why the REST API accepts POST for what is purely a read only request.

You could override the behavior by changing the default method used (by passing your own method ), but I would suggest against doing that in order to guarantee compatibility. I assume that you are fighting a proxy to ensure that only read only requests are allowed. Instead of trying to fight the browser(s) to work for the proxy, you should just make exceptions for POST requests whose URLs end with /_search to Elasticsearch.