= Groovy API
:ref:  http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/2.4
:java: http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/java-api/2.4

[preface]
== Preface

This section describes the http://groovy-lang.org/[Groovy] API
elasticsearch provides. All elasticsearch APIs are executed using a
<<client,GClient>>, and are completely
asynchronous in nature (they either accept a listener, or return a
future).

The Groovy API is a wrapper on top of the
{java}[Java API] exposing it in a groovier
manner. The execution options for each API follow a similar manner and
covered in <<anatomy>>.


[[maven]]
=== Maven Repository

The Groovy API is hosted on
http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Ca%3A%22elasticsearch-groovy%22[Maven
Central].

For example, you can define the latest version in your `pom.xml` file:

[source,xml]
--------------------------------------------------
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.elasticsearch</groupId>
    <artifactId>elasticsearch-groovy</artifactId>
    <version>${es.version}</version>
</dependency>
--------------------------------------------------

include::anatomy.asciidoc[]

include::client.asciidoc[]

include::index_.asciidoc[]

include::get.asciidoc[]

include::delete.asciidoc[]

include::search.asciidoc[]

include::count.asciidoc[]