Elasticsearch in an existing JHipster project

Question

I'm creating a JHipster application and identified now the necessity of a full text search. Iknow JHipster is integrated with Elasticseach but I didn't enabled it when I've created the project. Is there a easy (or painless) way to integrate Elasticsearch in an existing JHipster project?

Answer 1

You can edit your project's .yo-rc.json file and add a line "searchEngine": "elasticsearch",, re-run yo jhipster and merge manually the changes. You may have to re-generate entities too as explained in our doc: "Generating an entity a second time"