API for search query strings

[sozoalvin]

Hello, the general API instructions seems to be missing a section on how search queries can be made through REST API.

Are there some general (or detailed) instructions I could follow to make API calls to the bleve server/ index and have the results sent back as json?

Hope this is not too much trouble.

[mschoch]

According to the README, the API call to search the index is:

POST /api/{indexName}/_search - search index

I would recommend you run bleve-explorer, open up the web interface in your browser, and when you run a search, use the developer console to examine the JSON request/response. I believe it simply uses the bleve default HTTP handler, which we can see here using the bleve.SearchRequest, which has JSON struct tag annotations.

HTTP Handler parsing as http.SearchRequest:
https://github.com/blevesearch/bleve/blob/eaa32627cedbf3c7f66451aea5b86d5a0a7876e4/http/search.go#L65

bleve.SearchRequest:
https://github.com/blevesearch/bleve/blob/eaa32627cedbf3c7f66451aea5b86d5a0a7876e4/search.go#L271-L286

bleve.SearchResult:
https://github.com/blevesearch/bleve/blob/eaa32627cedbf3c7f66451aea5b86d5a0a7876e4/search.go#L488-L496