Count APIedit

Deprecated in 2.1.0.

Use the search api instead and set size to 0.

The count API is very similar to the Java count API. The Groovy extension allows to provide the query to execute as a Closure (similar to GORM criteria builder):

def count = client.count {
    indices "test"
    types "type1"
    query {
        term {
            test = "value"
        }
    }
}

The query follows the same Query DSL.