Please add the possibility to change the request method

[stefpe]

Elastica/lib/Elastica/Search.php

Line 466 in 02bf2fb

Request::GET,

Currently the request method is hardcoded and I need to change it to be able to use a proxy. My current workaround is the following:

        $search = $this->indexType->createSearch($query);
//request via client, otherwise the path string generation will be prefixed again.
        $response = $this->indexType->getIndex()->getClient()->request(
            $search->getPath(),
            Request::POST,
            $search->getQuery()->toArray(),
            $options
        );
        $result = $search->getResultSetBuilder()->buildResultSet($response, $search->getQuery());

But what I actually wanted to do would be something like this:

$result = $this->indexType->search($query, $options, Request::POST);

[ruflin]

Can you share some details on why GET requests do not work with proxies? Because if that is the case, there are many other requests where this becomes an issue I would think.

[stefpe]

Because in the HTTP Transport, you are setting
curl_setopt($conn, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $content);
For elasticsearch somehow a GET Request with filled post body works, but a proxy which doesnt read the POST Body on a GET Request, you run into issues.

[ruflin]

Thanks for the details. I'm ok with adding this option. Can you open a PR?

In case the proxy is under your control, I think the proxy should be configured accordingly. But I can see the issue in case the proxy is not under your control.

I wonder what the proxy is that does not support it?

[ruflin]

@stefpe I just stumbled over this one: elastic/elasticsearch#28342 It seems the official high level client moved to POST, so I wonder if we should make this even the default?

[alamirault]

PR is now merge, I think @ruflin you can close issue.