Way to access plugin endpoint while still taking advantage of failover

[ashitanojoe]

I have started using the langdetect plugin, which defines an endpoint on /_langdetect for querying a string's language.

I would like to be able to perform this request using the Elasticsearch.Net (either low level or high) API, but I can't see that there is any way this can be performed. I found that I could use methods in IElasticClient.Connection, but (as far as I can tell) those methods bypass the failover provided by ElasticClient's Transport.

Is there another way to accomplish what I am trying to do that I missed? Wouldn't making ITransport accessible from IElasticClient make what I want to do possible by giving access to DoRequest<T>? Or perhaps by adding methods to IElasticClient that would call to the raw API?

[Mpdreamz]

Good point @ashitanojoe I'm +1 on making these methods public

https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-net/blob/develop/src/Elasticsearch.Net/ElasticsearchClient.cs#L54-L63

and perhaps even add them to IElasticClient so you do not have to type client.Raw.DoRequest() but client.DoRequest().

@gmarz objections ?

[gmarz]

No objections here; I like this. Also +1 on adding them to IElasticClient.

[ashitanojoe]

I am currently using client.Raw.DoRequest() with reflection to make this call via an extension method on IElasticClient, and it works like a charm. But I do think making those APIs public would make this a lot easier and help to formalize how these types of calls should be made with Nest.