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Learn CBElasticsearch module config, environment variable support, and more.
Once you have installed the module, you may add a custom configuration, specific to your environment, by adding an cbElasticsearch configuration object to your moduleSettings inside your Coldbox.cfc configuration file.
By default the following are in place, without additional configuration:
moduleSettings = {
    "cbElasticsearch" = {
        //The native client Wirebox DSL for the transport client
        client="[email protected]",
        // The default hosts - an array of host connections
        //  - REST-based clients (e.g. JEST):  round robin connections will be used
        //  - Socket-based clients (e.g. Transport):  cluster-aware routing used
        versionTarget = getSystemSetting( "ELASTICSEARCH_VERSION", '' ),
        hosts = [
            //The default connection is made to http://127.0.0.1:9200
            {
                serverProtocol: getSystemSetting( "ELASTICSEARCH_PROTOCOL", "http" ),
                serverName: getSystemSetting( "ELASTICSEARCH_HOST", "127.0.0.1" ),
                serverPort: getSystemSetting( "ELASTICSEARCH_PORT", 9200 )
            }
        ],
        // The default credentials for access, if any - may also be overridden when searching index collections
        defaultCredentials = {
            "username" : getSystemSetting( "ELASTICSEARCH_USERNAME", "" ),
            "password" : getSystemSetting( "ELASTICSEARCH_PASSWORD", "" )
        },
        // The default index
        defaultIndex           = getSystemSetting( "ELASTICSEARCH_INDEX", "cbElasticsearch" ),
        // The default number of shards to use when creating an index
        defaultIndexShards     = getSystemSetting( "ELASTICSEARCH_SHARDS", 5 ),
        // The default number of index replicas to create
        defaultIndexReplicas   = getSystemSetting( "ELASTICSEARCH_REPLICAS", 0 ),
        // Whether to use separate threads for client transactions
        multiThreaded          = true,
        // The maximum amount of time to wait until releasing a connection (in seconds)
        maxConnectionIdleTime = 30,
        // The maximum number of connections allowed per route ( e.g. search URI endpoint )
        maxConnectionsPerRoute = 10,
        // The maxium number of connections, in total for all Elasticsearch requests
        maxConnections         = getSystemSetting( "ELASTICSEARCH_MAX_CONNECTIONS", 100 ),
        // Read timeout - the read timeout in milliseconds
        readTimeout            = getSystemSetting( "ELASTICSEARCH_READ_TIMEOUT", 3000 ),
        // Connection timeout - timeout attempts to connect to elasticsearch after this timeout
        connectionTimeout      = getSystemSetting( "ELASTICSEARCH_CONNECT_TIMEOUT", 3000 )
    }
};
At the current time only the REST-based [Hyper] native client is available. Support is in development for a socket based-client. For most applications, however the REST-based native client will be a good fit.
Configuration via Environment Variables
Since the default settings will read from environment variables if they exist, we can easily configure cbElasticsearch from a .env file:
# .env
​
# Configure elasticsearch connection
ELASTICSEARCH_HOST=localhost
ELASTICSEARCH_PORT=9222
ELASTICSEARCH_PASSWORD=B0xify_3v3ryth1ng
​
# Configure data storage and retrieval
ELASTICSEARCH_INDEX=books
ELASTICSEARCH_SHARDS=5
ELASTICSEARCH_REPLICAS=0
ELASTICSEARCH_MAX_CONNECTIONS=100
ELASTICSEARCH_READ_TIMEOUT=3000
ELASTICSEARCH_CONNECT_TIMEOUT=3000
You will need to read these settings into the coldfusion server upon server start via commandbox-dotenv or some other method.
For security reasons, make sure to add .env to your .gitignore file to avoid committing environment secrets to github/your git server.
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