Strongly typed Elasticsearch client

NEST aims to be a .net client with a very concise API. Its main goal is to provide a solid strongly typed Elasticsearch client. It also has string/dynamic overloads for more dynamic usecases.

Indexing is as simple as:

var post = new Post() { Id = 12, ... }
var result = client.Index(post);

Indexing asynchronously is as easy as:

//t is a Task<ConnectionStatus>
var t = client.IndexAsync(post);

Searching is fluent:

var results = this.ConnectedClient.Search<ElasticSearchProject>(s => s
		.From(0)
		.Size(10)
		.Fields(f => f.Id, f => f.Name)
		.SortAscending(f => f.LOC)
		.SortDescending(f => f.Name)
		.Query(q=>q.Term(f=>f.Name, "NEST", Boost: 2.0))
);

#Read the documentation here

additionally @joelabrahamsson wrote a great intro into elasticsearch on .NET using NEST.

Also checkout the searchbox.io guys rocking NEST on AppHarbor with their demo project

Nest can be installed through NuGet:

PM> Install-Package NEST

Or searching for "elasticsearch" will get you to nest as well.

#Who's using NEST?

• stackoverflow.com (and the rest of the stackexchange family).
• 7digital.com (run NEST on mono).
• rijksmuseum.nl (elasticsearch is the only datastorage hit for each page).
• Kiln FogCreek's version control & code review tooling. They are so pleased with elasticsearch that they made a video about how pleased they are!

Always keen to hear and list more uses ! hit me on @Mpdreamz

All of these are more then welcome on the github issues pages! I try to to at least reply within the same day.

Copyright (c) 2010 Martijn Laarman and everyone wonderful enough to contribute to NEST

A special shoutout to @stephenpope for allowing his port of the java factory based dsl Rubber to be merged into NEST. NEST now has two types of query dsl's (lambda and factory based)!

Many thanks to my employer Q42 for supporting the development of NEST by donating 20% of my contract hours for NEST's development. That means I get a full paid day to work on NEST a week, whoohoo! If you are in the netherlands (The Hague/Amsterdam area) and looking for a great place to work: we're hiring!

Some of the other wonderful features in NEST were pushed by these wonderful folks:

• @nordbergm
• @kevingessner
• @EFJoseph
• @pkrakowiak
• [@q42jaap] (https://github.com/q42jaap/NEST)

NEST is licensed under MIT. Refer to license.txt for more information.