title: Refreshing an Elastic Search Index / Realtime Searching
body: <p>I'm writing unit tests for an ElasticSearch datasource, however, I am getting mixed results. The problem is that a match_all query isn't finding records that I submitted, however, when I run the commands by hand using CURL in the same order the unit test does I am able to find the records.</p>
  
  <p>I believe that perhaps the index isn't refreshed, so, I started running the "refresh" api command after submitting records, however, this didn't work either. Here is my list of commands - it would be helpful if anyone had any suggestions on how to make sure these commands worked even if they were run in immediate succession.</p>
  
  <p>Commands the unit test runs:</p>
  
  <pre><code>curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/test_index/_mapping'
  
  curl -XDELETE 'http://localhost:9200/test_index/test_models'
  
  curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/test_index/test_models/_refresh' -d '{}'
  
  curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/test_index/test_models/_mapping' -d '{"test_models":{"properties":{"TestModel":{"properties":{"id":{"type":"string","index":"not_analyzed"},"string":{"type":"string"},"created":{"type":"date","format":"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"},"modified":{"type":"date","format":"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"}},"type":"object"}}}}'
  
  curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/test_index/test_models/_bulk' -d '{"index":{"_index":"test_index","_type":"test_models","_id":"test-model"}}
  {"TestModel":{"id":"test-model","string":"Analyzed for terms","created":"2012-01-01 00:00:00","modified":"2012-02-01 00:00:00"}}
  '
  
  curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/test_index/test_models/_refresh' -d '{}'
  
  curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/test_index/_mapping'
  
  curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/test_index/test_models/_search' -d '{"query":{"match_all":{}},"size":10}'
  </code></pre>
  
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  <p>-DK</p>