@elastic/transport

What is @elastic/transport?

@elastic/transport is a low-level HTTP transport library for Node.js, designed to be used with Elasticsearch clients. It provides the core functionality for making HTTP requests to Elasticsearch clusters, handling retries, and managing connections.

What are @elastic/transport's main functionalities?

Basic HTTP Request

This feature allows you to make basic HTTP requests to an Elasticsearch cluster. The code sample demonstrates how to create a Transport instance and make a GET request to the root endpoint of the Elasticsearch cluster.

const { Transport } = require('@elastic/transport');

const transport = new Transport({
  node: 'http://localhost:9200'
});

async function makeRequest() {
  const response = await transport.request({
    method: 'GET',
    path: '/'
  });
  console.log(response.body);
}

makeRequest();

Handling Retries

This feature allows you to configure the number of retries for failed requests. The code sample demonstrates how to set up a Transport instance with a maximum of 3 retries and handle the request failure.

const { Transport } = require('@elastic/transport');

const transport = new Transport({
  node: 'http://localhost:9200',
  maxRetries: 3
});

async function makeRequest() {
  try {
    const response = await transport.request({
      method: 'GET',
      path: '/'
    });
    console.log(response.body);
  } catch (error) {
    console.error('Request failed after 3 retries:', error);
  }
}

makeRequest();

Connection Pooling

This feature allows you to manage multiple connections to different nodes in an Elasticsearch cluster. The code sample demonstrates how to create a Transport instance with a pool of nodes and make a request.

const { Transport } = require('@elastic/transport');

const transport = new Transport({
  nodes: [
    'http://localhost:9200',
    'http://localhost:9201'
  ]
});

async function makeRequest() {
  const response = await transport.request({
    method: 'GET',
    path: '/'
  });
  console.log(response.body);
}

makeRequest();

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axios

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got

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node-fetch

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README

Elastic Node.js Transport

This is a HTTP transport Node.js library for communicate with Elastic products, like Elasticsearch.

Install

npm install @elastic/transport

Node.js support

NOTE: The minimum supported version of Node.js is v18.

The client versioning follows the Elastic Stack versioning, this means that major, minor, and patch releases are done following a precise schedule that often does not coincide with the Node.js release times.

To avoid support insecure and unsupported versions of Node.js, the client will drop the support of EOL versions of Node.js between minor releases. Typically, as soon as a Node.js version goes into EOL, the client will continue to support that version for at least another minor release.

Unless you are always using a supported version of Node.js, we recommend defining the client dependency in your package.json with the ~ instead of ^. In this way, you will lock the dependency on the minor release and not the major. (for example, ~7.10.0 instead of ^7.10.0).

Node.js Version	Node.js EOL date	End of support
8.x	December 2019	7.11 (early 2021)
10.x	April 2021	7.12 (mid 2021)
12.x	April 2022	8.2 (early 2022)
14.x	April 2023	8.8 (early 2023)
16.x	October 2023	8.14 (early 2024)

API

Usage

License

This software is licensed under the Apache 2 license.