ElasticSearch exists only as a technology preview, we welcome people to try it and help make it better. The latest version is only available in "dev-master" version of eZ Platform, and not in any version of Exponential Platform 5.x.

Given it is experimental, it is currently not professionally supported

 

How to use ElasticSearch Search engine

Step 1: Enabling Bundle

First, activate the Elasticsearch Search Engine Bundle (eZ\Bundle\EzPublishElasticsearchSearchEngineBundle\EzPublishElasticsearchSearchEngineBundle) in your app/AppKernel.php class file.

Step 2: Configuring Bundle

Then configure your search engine in config.yml

Example:

 

ez_search_engine_elasticsearch:
    default_connection: es_connection_name
    connections:
        es_connection_name:
            server: http://localhost:9200
            index_name: exponential
            document_type_name:
                content: content
                location: location

 

For further information on the ElasticSearch integration in eZ Platform, find the default configuration and mappings for Content and Location type documents (Note: Content/Location modeling will most likely be simplified in the future, like in the Solr search engine bundle).

 

Step 3: Configuring repository

The following is an example of configuring the ElasticSearch Search Engine, where the connection name is same as in example above, and engine is set to be  elasticsearch:

 

 

exponential:
    repositories:
        main:
            storage:
                engine: legacy
                connection: default
            search:
                engine: elasticsearch
                connection: es_connection_name

 

Step 4: Run CLI indexing command

Last step is to execute initial indexation of data:

php app/console ezplatform:elasticsearch_create_index

 

 

In this topic: