How do you debug your Nest queries?

Question

I\'m new to Nest, and I very likely am not creating my query like I think I am. My question is more along the lines of teach a man to fish rather than give me a fish. However,

Answer 1

NEST is Baroque of .NET APIs. For 2.1+ on call level:

IElasticClient client = new ElasticClient();
var searchDescriptor = new SearchDescriptor();
var query = Query.Term(...);
var pretty = query.ToPrettyString(query);
var json = client.ToRawRequest(searchDescriptor.Query(descriptor => query));

On configuration level:

    var settings = new ConnectionSettings()
                     .PrettyJson().DisableDirectStreaming()
                     .OnRequestCompleted(details=> Debug.WriteLine(Encoding.UTF8.GetString(details.RequestBodyInBytes)));

On response level look into CallDetails.RequestBodyInBytes.

Used extensions:

    /// 

    /// Converts search to raw JSON request for debugging.
    /// 
    /// The type.
    /// The self.
    /// The search descriptor.
    /// The string.
    public static string ToRawRequest(this IElasticClient self, SearchDescriptor searchDescriptor) where T : class
    {
        using (var output = new MemoryStream())
        {
            self.Serializer.Serialize(searchDescriptor, output);
            output.Position = 0;
            var rawQuery = new StreamReader(output).ReadToEnd();
            return rawQuery;
        }
    }

    /// 

    /// Prints query into string.
    /// 
    /// The self.
    /// The value.
    public static string ToPrettyString(this QueryContainer self)
    {
        using (var settings = new ConnectionSettings())
        {
            var visitor = new DslPrettyPrintVisitor(settings);
            self.Accept(visitor);
            return visitor.PrettyPrint.Replace(Environment.NewLine, string.Empty);
        }                                                                         
    }