json-to-es-bulk

Simple utility that reads in a file (specified on the command line with -f) that contains an array of JSON data and outputs a new file with contents suitable as the request body for an Elasticsearch bulk request.

The utility will create a file named request-data.txt in the output path specified.

Limitations

• Currently is required that there is a property named id in each object of the array in order to properly create the bulk request.
• Only index operations are supported

The easy use-case for this tool is to use something like JSON-Generator to generate test data that can easily be converted to a bulk request.

Usage

Getting started

• Clone this repo
• Run npm install

Creating request data for an input file:

node index.js -f inputdata.json --index test --type test

This will read inputdata.json from the current directory, and create a bulk request to the test index to the test mapping.

Using curl to index the request data:

curl -XPOST http://localhost:9200/_bulk @<path to output file>