is there any way to import a json file(contains 100 documents) in elasticsearch server.?

Question

Is there any way to import a JSON file (contains 100 documents) in elasticsearch server? I want to import a big json file into es-server..

Answer 1

Import no, but you can index the documents by using the ES API.

You can use the index api to load each line (using some kind of code to read the file and make the curl calls) or the index bulk api to load them all. Assuming your data file can be formatted to work with it.

Read more here : ES API

A simple shell script would do the trick if you comfortable with shell something like this maybe (not tested):

while read line
do
curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200///' -d "$line"
done 

Peronally, I would probably use Python either pyes or the elastic-search client.

pyes on github
elastic search python client

Stream2es is also very useful for quickly loading data into es and may have a way to simply stream a file in. (I have not tested a file but have used it to load wikipedia doc for es perf testing)