How to do windows debugging Elasticsearch using Intellij IDEA

ElasticSearch is implemented in Java language. So, we need build and debug tools in Java language. I show build and debug procedures using Java build tool Gradle and Java integrated development environment Intellij IDEA.

1. Prerequisites

Version of Elasticsearch: Elasticsearch 7.10

Target Machine and Host Machine: Windows10(same machine)

2. Building Elasticsearch

Installi Gradle which is a Java build tool.

(1) Install Oracle JDK11 from the following link
https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase-downloads.html

(2) Install Gradle according to the following link procedures
https://gradle.org/install/

(3) Download ElasticSearch sources from the following link. Hereinafter we call the directory whch download to <top>.
https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch

(4) Execute the following command to build Elasticsearch at commandline with working directory <top>

gradlew.bat localDistro

3. Debugging Elasticsearch

(1) Install Java integrated development environment IntelliJ IDEA community edition from the following link

https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/#section=windows

(2) Open ElasticSsearch project using Intellij IDEA selecting <top>

(3) Select [Run]>[Debug Elasticsearch] in Intellij IDEA

(4) Execute the following comannd at commandline with working directory <top>

gradlew.bat run –debug-jvm

(5) Install curl

(6) Create a breakpoint at validate() method of IndexRequest class in <top>/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/index/IndexRequest.java

(7) Execute the following comannd at commandline.

curl -X POST “http://elastic:password@localhost:9200/my-index-000001/_doc?pretty” -H “Content-Type: application/json” -d “{\”title\”: \”test document\”}”

(8) If you see that Elasticsearch stops at (6) breakpoint, your Debugging insert command successes.

(9) Create a breakpoint at start() method of AbstractSearchAsyncAction class in <top>/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/search/AbstractSearchAsyncAction.java

(10) Execute the following comannd at commandline.

curl -X POST “http://elastic:password@localhost:9200/my-index-000001/_doc?pretty” -H “Content-Type: application/json” -d “{\”title\”: \”test document\”}”

(11) If you see that Elasticsearch stops at (9) breakpoint, your Debugging search command successes.

4. References

[1] Contributing to elasticsearch
https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

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