I've just added a JIRA improvement ticket for this ( https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-4491).
Best, Flavio On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Maximilian Michels <m...@apache.org> wrote: > The connector doesn't cover this use case. Through the API you need to > use the IndicesAdminClient: > https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/java- > api/current/java-admin-indices.html > > Otherwise Elasticsearch creates an index with shards automatically. We > could add support for configuring shards in the future. > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 11:42 AM, Flavio Pompermaier > <pomperma...@okkam.it> wrote: > > Indeed, we've tried with the parameter index.number_of_shards but it > didn't > > work so I fear that this parameter is not handled by the current > > implementation..am I wrong? > > > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 11:37 AM, Ufuk Celebi <u...@apache.org> wrote: > >> > >> I've never used the Elasticsearch sink, but the docs say: > >> > >> "Note how a Map of Strings is used to configure the Sink. The > >> configuration keys are documented in the Elasticsearch > >> documentationhere. Especially important is the cluster.name parameter > >> that must correspond to the name of your cluster." > >> > >> The config keys for index creation are found here: > >> > >> https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/ > current/indices-create-index.html > >> > >> Does this help? If not, maybe @Aljoscha can chime in here. > >> > >> – Ufuk > >> > >> > >> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Flavio Pompermaier > >> <pomperma...@okkam.it> wrote: > >> > Hi to all, > >> > > >> > we tried to use the streaming ES connector of Flink 1.1-SNAPSHOT and > we > >> > wanted to set the number of shards when creating a new index. Is that > >> > possible at the moment? > >> > > >> > Best, > >> > Flavio > > > > >