Elasticsearch-js has no existing documentation for count(...) - any examples/other docs?

Question

I am using elasticsearch js within my application and have successfully connected and queried data from elastic.

I am now trying to implement the count() method to return the number of documents in the index. Here is the simple code snippet:

elasticClient.count(/* params: CountParams */)

I replaced params: CountParams with indexName but I now receive an illegal argument exception saying that ... [/_count] contains unrecognized parameters ...

I cannot find any documentation anywhere, whether on the api, stack overflow, or on other sites, regarding the count method.

I would greatly appreciate it if anyone could provide a working example or any links.

Thank you!

Stefano Branco · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-09T14:20:21.107

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Does this help? Seems like that would be what you need, though it does not contain an actual example.

edit: how exactly does your call look? I'm not using the js client currently, but I assume you would have to add the parameter? Something like this maybe?

elasticClient.count({index: 'index-name'})

edited Jul 09 '19 at 14:20

answered Jul 09 '19 at 14:15

Stefano Branco

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That works! I have to manipulate it a little bit more to actually return the count, since it returns a Promise, but that's easy enough. Thank you! – lve Jul 09 '19 at 14:29

Elasticsearch-js has no existing documentation for count(...) - any examples/other docs?

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