AWS ElasticSearch PreBuiltTransportClient java.lang.NoSuchMethodError

Question

I've created a Java project in Eclipse IDE and in a class have this code. I have included all the jar file dependencies.

TransportClient client = new PreBuiltTransportClient(Settings.EMPTY,Arrays.asList(
                Netty3Plugin.class,
                Netty4Plugin.class,
                ReindexPlugin.class,
                PercolatorPlugin.class,
                MustachePlugin.class))
        .addTransportAddress(new InetSocketTransportAddress(InetAddress
                .getByName("https://search-my-test-domain-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.us-east-1.es.amazonaws.com"), 9300));

But when I run the code this error comes,

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.elasticsearch.transport.client.PreBuiltTransportClient.addPlugins(Ljava/util/Collection;Ljava/util/Collection;)Ljava/util/Collection;
at org.elasticsearch.transport.client.PreBuiltTransportClient.<init>(PreBuiltTransportClient.java:125)
at org.elasticsearch.transport.client.PreBuiltTransportClient.<init>(PreBuiltTransportClient.java:111)
at ESConnManager.retrieveDataFromES(ESConnManager.java:572)
at ESConnManager.main(ESConnManager.java:166)

I'm using elasticsearch v5.3.2 and using the java api v5.3. Any solution?

Answer 1

You don't need to specify those five plugins as they are already loaded by default by the PreBuiltTransportClient constructor as can be seen in the source code of PreBuiltTransportClient

So use this instead:

TransportClient client = new PreBuiltTransportClient(Settings.EMPTY)
    .addTransportAddress(new InetSocketTransportAddress(InetAddress
            .getByName("https://search-my-test-domain-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.us-east-1.es.amazonaws.com"), 9300));

However, since you're trying to hit an AWS managed ES cluster, just know that the transport client is not supported, you can only access AWS ES instances via HTTP and not via TCP. The next error you'll get is that the node is not available.