Rest API search engine with Spring Boot and Spring Data Elasticsearch

In this story, we’ll see how to use Spring Boot with Spring Data Elasticsearch.

· Prerequisites
· Overview
∘ What is Elasticsearch?
∘ Why Elasticsearch?
∘ Elasticsearch Setup with Docker
· Getting Started
∘ Configuring Elasticsearch in Spring Boot
∘ Elasticsearch Object Mapping
∘ Elasticsearch Repositories
∘ Service Layer
∘ Book Controller
· Testing
· Conclusion
· References

Prerequisites

This is the list of all the prerequisites:

• Spring Boot 3.0.2
• Maven 3.8.+
• Java 17
• Postman / insomnia or any other API testing tool.
• Docker installed

Overview

What is Elasticsearch?

Elasticsearch is a distributed, free and open search and analytics engine for all types of data, including textual, numerical, geospatial…