java - How to execute a search template within Elasticsearch by using apache.httpcomponents.httpclient -

curl -xget http://localhost:9200/contact/_search/template?pretty -d '{"id":"contact", "params": {"q": "123456", "company": "2"}}' 

it works well, how can use httpclient make call?

you can achieve this:

stringrequestentity entity = new stringrequestentity(     "{\"id\":\"contact\", \"params\": {\"q\": \"123456\", \"company\": \"2\"}}",     "application/json",     "utf-8");  postmethod post = new postmethod("http://localhost:9200/contact/_search/template"); postmethod.addparameter("pretty", ""); postmethod.setrequestentity(entity); int statuscode = httpclient.executemethod(post);