request-converter

Library that converts Elasticsearch requests in Dev Console syntax to other formats.

Try it out here.

Installation

npm install @elastic/request-converter

Usage

import { convertRequests } from "@elastic/request-converter";

const devConsoleScript = `GET /my-index-000001/_search?from=40&size=20
{
  "query": {
    "term": {
      "user.id": "kimchy"
    }
  }
}`

async function main() {
  const code = await convertRequests(devConsoleScript, "python", {
    checkOnly: false,
    printResponse: true,
    complete: true,
    elasticsearchUrl: "http://localhost:9200",
  });
  console.log(code);
}

main();

The list of available formats that can be passed in the second argument can be obtained as follows:

import { listFormats } from "@elastic/request-converter";

const formats = listFormats();

The ouput code in the example above would look like this:

import os
from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch

client = Elasticsearch(
    hosts=["http://localhost:9200"],
    api_key=os.getenv("ELASTIC_API_KEY"),
)

resp = client.search(
    index="my-index-000001",
    from_="40",
    size="20",
    query={
        "term": {
            "user.id": "kimchy"
        }
    },
)

When using Node and JavaScript, you can import the functions in this library as follows:

const { convertRequests, listFormats } = require("@elastic/request-converter");

Available Formats

At this time the converter supports curl, python, javascript, php, ruby and csharp. Work is currently in progress to add support for more languages.

curl

The curl exporter generates commands for the terminal using the curl command line HTTP client.

Supported options:

| Option name | Type | Required | Description | | ----------- | ---- | -------- | ----------- | | elasticsearchUrl | string | no | The Elasticsearch endpoint to use in the generated commands. The default is http://localhost:9200. | | otherUrls | Record<string, string> | no | URLs for other services. For Kibana, use {kbn: "http://localhost:5601"} | | windows | boolean | no | If true, use PowerShell escaping rules for quotes. If false, use bash/zsh escaping rules. The default is false. |

python

The Python exporter generates code for the Elasticsearch Python client.

Supported options:

| Option name | Type | Required | Description | | ----------- | ---- | -------- | ----------- | | printResponse | boolean | no | If true, add code to print the response. The default is false. | | complete | boolean | no | If true, generate a complete script. If false, only generate the request code. The default is false. | | elasticsearchUrl | string | no | The Elasticsearch endpoint to use. The default is http://localhost:9200. |

javascript

The JavaScript exporter generates code for the Elasticsearch JavaScript client.

Supported options:

| Option name | Type | Required | Description | | ----------- | ---- | -------- | ----------- | | printResponse | boolean | no | If true, add code to print the response. The default is false. | | complete | boolean | no | If true, generate a complete script. If false, only generate the request code. The default is false. | | elasticsearchUrl | string | no | The Elasticsearch endpoint to use in the generated commands. The default is http://localhost:9200. |

php

The PHP exporter generates code for the Elasticsearch PHP client.

Supported options:

| Option name | Type | Required | Description | | ----------- | ---- | -------- | ----------- | | printResponse | boolean | no | If true, add code to print the response. The default is false. | | complete | boolean | no | If true, generate a complete script. If false, only generate the request code. The default is false. | | elasticsearchUrl | string | no | The Elasticsearch endpoint to use. The default is http://localhost:9200. |

ruby

The Ruby exporter generates code for the Elasticsearch Ruby client.

Supported options:

| Option name | Type | Required | Description | | ----------- | ---- | -------- | ----------- | | printResponse | boolean | no | If true, add code to print the response. The default is false. | | complete | boolean | no | If true, generate a complete script. If false, only generate the request code. The default is false. | | elasticsearchUrl | string | no | The Elasticsearch endpoint to use. The default is http://localhost:9200. |

csharp

The C# exporter generates code for the Elasticsearch .NET client. Unlike the other exporters, code generation runs inside a .NET WASM bundle shipped separately as the @elastic/request-converter-dotnet package, since the .NET client's code model isn't available in JavaScript. Install it alongside this package, choosing the major.minor version that matches your target Elasticsearch version:

npm install @elastic/request-converter-dotnet

To use a locally built bundle instead (for example while developing the bundle itself), set the CSHARP_REQUEST_CONVERTER_BUNDLE environment variable to the path of its entry point before running the converter.

Supported options (snake_case, matching the .NET bundle's wire contract):

| Option name | Type | Required | Description | | ----------- | ---- | -------- | ----------- | | syntax_mode | string | no | "descriptor" for fluent descriptor chains, or "object_initializer" for object initializers. The default is "descriptor". | | use_strongly_typed_document | boolean | no | If true, field accessors use lambdas on an illustrative document type. The default is true. | | document_type_name | string | no | The document type name used in generated code. The default is "MyDocument". | | type_name_style | string | no | "Simplified", "Fqn", or "GlobalFqn" type-name rendering. The default is "Simplified". | | debug | boolean | no | If true, append converter diagnostics to error messages. The default is false. |

Command-Line Interface

For convenience, a CLI that wraps the convertRequests function is also available.

$ echo GET / > request.txt
$ node_modules/.bin/es-request-converter --format python --complete < request.txt
import os
from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch

client = Elasticsearch(
    hosts=[os.getenv("ELASTICSEARCH_URL")],
    api_key=os.getenv("ELASTIC_API_KEY"),
)

resp = client.info()

Using a Custom Exporter

Instead of passing the name of one of the available exporters, you can pass a custom exporter instance.

To define a custom exporter format, create a class that implements the FormatExporter interface. Here is an example exporter that outputs the name of the API used in the request:

import { FormatExporter, convertRequests } from "@elastic/request-converter";

class MyExporter implements FormatExporter {
  async check(requests: ParsedRequest[]): Promise<boolean> { return true; }
  async convert(requests: ParsedRequest[], options: ConvertOptions): Promise<string> {
    return requests.map(req => req.api).join("\n");
  }
}

const apis = await convertRequests("GET /my-index/_search\nGET /\n", new MyExporter(), {});
console.log(apis); // outputs "search\ninfo"

Development

This section describes routine development tasks.

Elasticsearch Specification updates

To refresh the specification schema.json file, switch to the desired branch (e.g. 9.5) and then run the command:

npm run update-schema

Unit tests

To run all the unit tests, use:

npm run test

To start a watcher process that executes tests automatically as source files change, use:

npm run watch:test

Integration tests

The integration tests run the examples stored in the schema.json file through the conversion process, execute the generated code, capture the requests that the generated code issues, and compare them against the initial examples, with some amount of flexibility due to differences in how each language client interprets requests. This is a fairly complex process that works well for the majority but not all of the examples. Examples that are known to fail can be noted in the tests/integration/skip.ts file.

The entire integration test suite runs every Tuesday at 2AM UTC in a GitHub Actions scheduled workflow. It is also possible to trigger a run on demand from the workflow page. It currently takes about 5 minutes for the full run, with all the languages running in parallel. A local run with languages running back to back takes can be expected to take 15-20 minutes to complete.

To run the integration tests locally, first install dependencies needed for all supported languages:

npm run test:setup

The setup command is also available separately for each language:

npm run test:setup-curl
npm run test:setup-python
npm run test:setup-ruby
npm run test:setup-javascript
npm run test:setup-php

To run the integration tests for all languages:

npm run test:integration

Or separately for each language:

npm run test:integration-curl
npm run test:integration-python
npm run test:integration-ruby
npm run test:integration-javascript
npm run test:integration-php

It is also possible to run a single test on all available languages:

npm run test:example CountRequestExample1

Linting

To run the linters:

npm run lint
npm run prettier

To automatically fix issues found by the linters:

npm run fix

Building

To build the library locally:

npm run build

To delete all the build files:

npm run clean

To build the documentation:

npm run docs

Releasing

To prepare a release commit, switch to the target branch (e.g. 9.5) and run:

npm run release

This script could refuse to run in certain situations:

• If the specification's schema.json file is not up to date
• If the current branch isn't a releasable branch (e.g. main)
• If there are uncommitted changes in the current branch

In these cases, the script will indicate what the problem is and how to address it.

If everything looks all right, the script will propose a version number, which can be accepted or changed. Then it will open your default text editor (set in $EDITOR) with generated release notes that can be edited as necessary. Once you exit the editor, the diff for the release changes will be shown. Press ENTER to generate a release commit or Ctrl-C to abort.

The release commit then needs to be pushed to the upstream repository:

git push --tags origin $BRANCH

Finally, there is a "Publish package to npm" workflow on GitHub Actions that needs to be started to push the release to npm.