Elastic search with CouchDB river plugin - Can't find any documents - couchdb

Question

I recently started using elasticsearch and couchdb and I have the following problem. I have a couch database with a bunch of documents. I add a couchDb river index on elasticsearch and I expect to have those documents indexed and searchable. But when I search for anything though ES I don't get any results. The command flow is as follows:
The command above verifies that there are 4 documents in the couchDb instance
curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X GET http://localhost:5984/my_db
result:
{
"db_name": "my_db",
"doc_count": 4,
"doc_del_count": 0,
"update_seq": 4,
"purge_seq": 0,
"compact_running": false,
"disk_size": 16482,
"data_size": 646,
"instance_start_time": "1370204643908592",
"disk_format_version": 6,
"committed_update_seq": 4
}
The _changes output:
curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X GET http://localhost:5984/my_db/_changes
{
"results": [
{
"seq": 1,
"id": "1",
"changes": [
{
"rev": "1-40d928a959dd52d183ab7c413fabca92"
}
]
},
{
"seq": 2,
"id": "2",
"changes": [
{
"rev": "1-42212757a56b240f5205266b1969e890"
}
]
},
{
"seq": 3,
"id": "3",
"changes": [
{
"rev": "1-f59c2ae7acacb68d9414be05d56ed33a"
}
]
},
{
"seq": 4,
"id": "4",
"changes": [
{
"rev": "1-e86cf1c287c16906e81d901365b9bf98"
}
]
}
],
"last_seq": 4
}
Now, below I m creating my index in ES.
curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/_river/my_db/_meta' -d '{
"type": "couchdb",
"couchdb": {
"host": "localhost",
"port": 5984,
"db": "my_db",
"filter": null
}
}'
{
"ok": true,
"_index": "_river",
"_type": "my_db",
"_id": "_meta",
"_version": 1
}
But I don't get anything back.
curl -XGET "http://localhost:9200/my_db/my_db/_search?pretty=true"
{
"took" : 2,
"timed_out" : false,
"_shards" : {
"total" : 5,
"successful" : 5,
"failed" : 0
},
"hits" : {
"total" : 0,
"max_score" : null,
"hits" : []
}
}
Is there anything I'm missing?

Answer 1

You're missing the ElasticSearch index settings from your river metadata. From here:
{
"type" : "couchdb",
"couchdb" : {
"host" : "localhost",
"port" : 5984,
"db" : "my_db",
"filter" : null
},
"index" : {
"index" : "my_db",
"type" : "my_db",
"bulk_size" : "100",
"bulk_timeout" : "10ms"
}
}
I haven't seen any documentation that suggests the "index" member can be inferred.