Rubberlike is a Clojure library for creating embedded Elasticsearch servers. Pretty useful for testing if I may say so myself.

Latest version is [rubberlike "0.2.1"].

Rubberlike requires Java >= 1.7 and quite possibly Elasticsearch >= 1.4.x.

Elasticsearch is not included as a dependency in Rubberlike so you would have to pull it in yourself, e.g. [org.elasticsearch/elasticsearch "1.4.0"].

All functions reside in the rubberlike.core namespace.

create creates and starts an embedded Elasticsearch server instance. Invoking create with no arguments will create a temporary directory for data storage, as well as bind the server instance to a dynamically allocated port.

Alternatively, create can be invoked with a map of configuration parameters. These are:

• port to define which port Elasticsearch will bind to.
• host to define which host Elasticsearch will bind to.
• data-dir pointing to the directory where data is to be stored.
• temp-data-dir? which if set to true will tell Rubberlike to create a temporary data directory for you.
• disable-http? which will stop Rubberlike from launching a HTTP interface for your instance when set to true.

The object returned from create is to be provided as the sole argument to the following functions.

port will give you the server port, which will come in handy if the port is not specified in the call to create and thus is dynamically allocated.

There is also a client function which will give you an instance of org.elasticsearch.client.Client for use with Elasticsearch's native API.

The server can be stopped by calling stop. If temp-data-dir? in the call to create was set to true, the data directory will be deleted upon calling stop.

Let's summarize this with an example:

(require '[rubberlike.core :refer [create stop port]])

;; Create and start a new server.

> (def server (create))
#'user/server

;; Port is dynamically allocated as we didn't specify one. Let's get a hold of it.

> (port server)
9212

;; Assuming we've done our thing with this instance, let's tear it down.

> (stop server)
:stopped

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