Elasticsearch returns empty json-objects - spring

Question

I'm just getting started with elasticsearch with spring which is both technologies which are completely new to me. I have uploaded data to an elasticseach index with logstash and I can search it successfully using kebana. However when I try to return from an index to a webpage using spring it only returns empty json-objects, but the right amount of empty objects. Did I upload the data incorrectly or is something wrong with my code? I don't understand why this is happening and would appreciate any help I can get. You can find some code below.
Code for type:
#Document(indexName="usmgbg_index", type="usmgbg_type")
public class Usmgbg {
#Id
private String ID;
private String Source, Name, Profession, Country, FileName, LastModified, OwnerID;
}
Repository:
#Repository
public interface UsmgbgRepository extends ElasticsearchRepository<Usmgbg, String>{}
Controller:
#RestController
public class UsmgbgController {
#Autowired
private UsmgbgRepository repository;
#GetMapping("usmgbg/findall")
public List<Usmgbg> findAllCustomers() {
List<Usmgbg> items = new ArrayList<>();
repository.findAll().forEach(items::add);
return items;
}
}
The output I'm getting from findAllCustomers looks like:
[{},{},{},{},....]

Answer 1

I realize this is an old question but I had the same issue (maybe for a different reason) and I solved it by adding getters and setters in the model.

Answer 2

Iterable is returned from findAll().
If you want to get list you should get content first.
Change
#Repository
public interface UsmgbgRepository extends
ElasticsearchRepository<Usmgbg, String>{
Page<Usmgbg> findAll();
}
And then
repository.findAll().getContent().forEach(items::add);
Or fix your code to iterate over the results.
Another solution is to use search method in ElasticsearchRepository using QueryBuilders API.
Iterable<Usmgbg>=
repository.search(QueryBuilders.matchAllQuery);

Answer 3

Adding my experience
spring-data requires getters to follow the POJO naming, i.e: getSomething()
so it did not work (spring-data did not send any fields to ElasticSearch when saving the #Document, resulting in an empty _source in ES) when having Lombok #Accessors(fluent = true), as it removes the get prefix on getters ...