Nested elasticsearch GET requests through node-red

Question

I have elasticsearch 6.7 running on a CentOs 7 machine, and I have node-red running from where I try to query the elastic search.

Using the httprequest node (in node-red) works great when I need to POST data to server, or when I need to perform simple GET _search queries where I can simply send parameters in the url, such as :

http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:9200/data/default/_search?size={{{size}}}&from={{{from}}}&q=sensor:temp

with a simple flow:

As described in this question.

But if I need more complex queries that have nested parameters I cannot perform it with parameters through the url. For example how would I make this cURL GET with the httprequest node in node-red:

 curl -XGET "http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:9200/data/default/_search" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'
 {
   "size": 0,
   "query": {
     "range":{
       "created":{
         "gte":"2019-03-11",
         "lte":"2019-03-12"
       }
     }
   }, 
   "aggs": {
     "status_terms": {
       "terms": {
         "field": "device.keyword"
       },
       "aggs": {
         "status_stats": {
           "stats": {
             "field": "value"
           }
         }
       }
     }
   }
 }'

Val Val · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-03T14:28:34

Note that you can send the whole body in the query string as a parameters.

It would look like this:

curl -XGET 'http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:9200/data/default/_search?source_content_type=application/json&source={"size":0,"query":{"range":{"created":{"gte":"2019-03-11","lte":"2019-03-12"}}},"aggs":{"status_terms":{"terms":{"field":"device.keyword"},"aggs":{"status_stats":{"stats":{"field":"value"}}}}}}'

Nested elasticsearch GET requests through node-red

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