{"id":6157,"date":"2019-07-10T19:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T19:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/?p=6157"},"modified":"2025-05-04T06:08:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T06:08:21","slug":"how-to-create-sample-data-to-perform-searches-using-elastic-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/how-to-create-sample-data-to-perform-searches-using-elastic-search\/","title":{"rendered":"How to create sample data to perform searches using elastic search?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Step 1 &#8211; Go to: http:\/\/www.json-generator.com\/<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\" aria-describedby=\"shcb-language-1\" data-shcb-language-name=\"JavaScript\" data-shcb-language-slug=\"javascript\"><span><code class=\"hljs language-javascript\">&#91;\n  <span class=\"hljs-string\">'{{repeat(1000, 1000)}}'<\/span>,\n  {\n    <span class=\"hljs-attr\">name<\/span>: <span class=\"hljs-string\">'{{firstName()}} {{surname()}}'<\/span>,\n    <span class=\"hljs-attr\">age<\/span>: <span class=\"hljs-string\">'{{integer(18, 75)}}'<\/span>,\n    <span class=\"hljs-attr\">gender<\/span>: <span class=\"hljs-string\">'{{gender()}}'<\/span>,\n    <span class=\"hljs-attr\">email<\/span>: <span class=\"hljs-string\">'{{email()}}'<\/span>,\n    <span class=\"hljs-attr\">phone<\/span>: <span class=\"hljs-string\">'+1 {{phone()}}'<\/span>,\n    <span class=\"hljs-attr\">street<\/span>: <span class=\"hljs-string\">'{{integer(100, 999)}} {{street()}}'<\/span>,\n    <span class=\"hljs-attr\">city<\/span>: <span class=\"hljs-string\">'{{city()}}'<\/span>,\n    <span class=\"hljs-attr\">state<\/span>: <span class=\"hljs-string\">'{{state()}}, {{integer(100, 10000)}}'<\/span>\n  }\n]<\/code><\/span><small class=\"shcb-language\" id=\"shcb-language-1\"><span class=\"shcb-language__label\">Code language:<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__name\">JavaScript<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">(<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__slug\">javascript<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">)<\/span><\/small><\/pre>\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 2 &#8211; Download and save as customers_full.json<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 3 &#8211; Open customers_full.json in sublimetext<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Remove the array brackets<\/li><li>Find-Replace },{ with }\\n{ in the regex mode on sublime text<\/li><li>Find-Replace {&#8220;name&#8221; with {&#8220;index&#8221; : {}}\\n{&#8220;name&#8221; in the regex model on sublime text<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Now the file is in a format that can be parsed by elastic search.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\" aria-describedby=\"shcb-language-2\" data-shcb-language-name=\"JavaScript\" data-shcb-language-slug=\"javascript\"><span><code class=\"hljs language-javascript\">curl -H <span class=\"hljs-string\">\"Content-Type: application\/x-ndjson\"<\/span> -XPOST <span class=\"hljs-string\">'localhost:9200\/customers\/personal\/_bulk?pretty&amp;refresh'<\/span> --data-binary @<span class=\"hljs-string\">\"customers_full.json\"<\/span>\n\ncurl -XGET <span class=\"hljs-string\">'localhost:9200\/_cat\/indices?v&amp;pretty'<\/span><\/code><\/span><small class=\"shcb-language\" id=\"shcb-language-2\"><span class=\"shcb-language__label\">Code language:<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__name\">JavaScript<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">(<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__slug\">javascript<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">)<\/span><\/small><\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Step 1 &#8211; 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