Indexing means adding a document to the search engine making it available for searching. All documents have an id and that can be specified by you or generated by Elasticsearch.
Lets index a very simple document that has a single field, a name.
index into "family" -> "soprano" fields {
"head" -> "tony"
}
Very SQL like as you can see. We can also specify the id.
index into "family" -> "soprano" fields {
"boss" -> "tony"
} id 1234
The id can be any object, it will be converted to a string using toString(). Multiple fields? Easy.
index into "family" -> "soprano" fields (
"boss" -> "tony",
"consigliere" -> "salvidor",
"underboss" -> "bobby"
) id 1234
If we have a nested structure, we can specifiy nested fields using dot notation.
index into "family" -> "soprano" fields (
"boss" -> "tony",
"boss.age" -> "56"
)