JHipster with elasticsearch on cloudfoundry - spring-boot

Question

Has anyone successfully used elasticsearch (searchly) through the Pivotal Web Services market place for a Jhipster generated application? I have correctly bound the searchly service to my application, but keep getting the following error:
Failed to instantiate [org.elasticsearch.client.Client]: Factory method 'elasticsearchClient' threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalStateException: java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "//gopivotal:<redacted>#dori-us-east-1.searchly.com"
My jhipster production profile is as follows:
data:
elasticsearch:
cluster-name:
cluster-nodes: ${vcap.searchly.credentials.uri}
Any help appreciated.

Answer 1

cluster-nodes is actually used behind the scenes by TransportClientFactoryBean and it can't parse the username:password bit. It doesn't feel right to paste the URI of the service in the "cluster-nodes" property but I couldn't find anything else to configure it.
Can you please create an issue in the Spring Data ElasticSearch tracker?
In the meantime, I suggest to use Jest, you can create your own client easily from PWS as follows:
public JestClient jestClient(String url) {
HttpClientConfig clientConfig = new HttpClientConfig
.Builder(String url)
.readTimeout(6000)
.multiThreaded(true)
.build();
JestClientFactory factory = new JestClientFactory();
factory.setHttpClientConfig(clientConfig);
return factory.getObject();
}
And pass the property (as you did in your description) to that method.