is there a way to deserialize Elasticsearch Nest search query?

Question

upon building my Elasticsearch query using Nest, i want to be able to see the JSON version of what's being sent to Elasticsearch. is this possible? some sort of deserializer i suppose.

here's the info for my follow up question:

{
  "_infer": {
    "defaultIndex": "myindex"
  },
  "acknowledged": false,
  "isValid": false,
  "connectionStatus": {
    "success": false,
    "requestMethod": "POST",
    "requestUrl": "http://localhost:9200/myindex",
    "settings": {},
    "request": "{
  "settings": {
    "index": {
      "analysis": {
        "analyzer": {
          "fullTermCaseInsensitive": {
            "tokenizer": "keyword",
            "filter": [
              "standard",
              "lowercase"
            ],
            "type": "custom"
          },
          "fullTerm": {
            "tokenizer": "keyword",
            "filter": [
              "standard"
            ],
            "type": "custom"
          },
          "caseInsensitive": {
            "tokenizer": "lowercase",
            "filter": [
              "standard"
            ],
            "type": "custom"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "mappings": {
    "searchdata": {
      "properties": {
        "upc": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "productid": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "title": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "store": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "mediaformat": {
          "type": "multi_field",
          "fields": {
            "mediaformat": {
              "type": "string",
              "analyzer": "fullTermCaseInsensitive"
            },
            "raw": {
              "type": "string",
              "index": "not_analyzed"
            }
          }
        },
        "label": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "vendor": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "availabledate": {
          "type": "date"
        },
        "releasedate": {
          "type": "date"
        },
        "lastreturndate": {
          "type": "date"
        },
        "nonreturnable": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "mpaa": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "esrb": {
          "type": "multi_field",
          "fields": {
            "esrb": {
              "type": "string",
              "analyzer": "fullTermCaseInsensitive"
            },
            "raw": {
              "type": "string",
              "index": "not_analyzed"
            }
          }
        },
        "csnrflag": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "cover": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "size": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "color": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "style": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "qoh": {
          "type": "integer"
        },
        "adult": {
          "type": "integer"
        },
        "salesrank": {
          "type": "integer"
        },
        "listprice": {
          "type": "double"
        },
        "sellingprice": {
          "type": "double"
        },
        "costprice": {
          "type": "double"
        },
        "specialorder": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "flags": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "salescategory": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "artists": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "name": {
              "type": "string",
              "analyzer": "fullTerm",
              "index": "not_analyzed"
            },
            "id": {
              "type": "string",
              "analyzer": "fullTerm",
              "index": "not_analyzed"
            }
          }
        },
        "directors": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "name": {
              "type": "string",
              "analyzer": "fullTerm",
              "index": "not_analyzed"
            },
            "id": {
              "type": "string",
              "analyzer": "fullTerm",
              "index": "not_analyzed"
            }
          }
        },
        "starring": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "name": {
              "type": "string",
              "analyzer": "fullTerm",
              "index": "not_analyzed"
            },
            "id": {
              "type": "string",
              "analyzer": "fullTerm",
              "index": "not_analyzed"
            }
          }
        },
        "credits": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "name": {
              "type": "string",
              "analyzer": "fullTerm",
              "index": "not_analyzed"
            },
            "id": {
              "type": "string",
              "analyzer": "fullTerm",
              "index": "not_analyzed"
            }
          }
        },
        "additionaltitles": {
          "type": "string",
          "analyzer": "caseInsensitive"
        },
        "attributes": {
          "type": "string",
          "analyzer": "caseInsensitive"
        },
        "specialty": {
          "type": "multi_field",
          "fields": {
            "specialty": {
              "type": "string",
              "analyzer": "fullTermCaseInsensitive"
            },
            "raw": {
              "type": "string",
              "index": "not_analyzed"
            }
          }
        },
        "genres": {
          "type": "multi_field",
          "fields": {
            "genres": {
              "type": "string",
              "analyzer": "fullTermCaseInsensitive"
            },
            "raw": {
              "type": "string",
              "index": "not_analyzed"
            }
          }
        },
        "theme": {
          "type": "multi_field",
          "fields": {
            "theme": {
              "type": "string",
              "analyzer": "fullTermCaseInsensitive"
            },
            "raw": {
              "type": "string",
              "index": "not_analyzed"
            }
          }
        },
        "price": {
          "type": "multi_field",
          "fields": {
            "price": {
              "type": "string",
              "analyzer": "fullTermCaseInsensitive"
            },
            "raw": {
              "type": "string",
              "index": "not_analyzed"
            }
          }
        },
        "tracks": {
          "type": "string",
          "analyzer": "caseInsensitive"
        },
        "deleted": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "updatedate": {
          "type": "date"
        },
        "processed": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "decades": {
          "type": "multi_field",
          "fields": {
            "decades": {
              "type": "string",
              "analyzer": "fullTermCaseInsensitive"
            },
            "raw": {
              "type": "string",
              "index": "not_analyzed"
            }
          }
        },
        "period": {
          "type": "multi_field",
          "fields": {
            "period": {
              "type": "string",
              "analyzer": "fullTermCaseInsensitive"
            },
            "raw": {
              "type": "string",
              "index": "not_analyzed"
            }
          }
        },
        "platform": {
          "type": "multi_field",
          "fields": {
            "platform": {
              "type": "string",
              "analyzer": "fullTermCaseInsensitive"
            },
            "raw": {
              "type": "string",
              "index": "not_analyzed"
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}",
    "numberOfRetries": 0,
    "httpStatusCode": 400,
    "serializer": {},
    "successOrKnownError": true
  },
  "infer": {
    "defaultIndex": "myindex"
  }
}

Answer 1

Yup. You can use the serializer that is exposed by ElasticClient like this:

var query = Nest.Query<SomeObject>...
var json = Client.Serializer.SerializeToString(query);

You can also use Newtonsoft directly, or any JSON library for that matter to serialize your query object. Using the serializer in ElasticClient though (which essentially wraps Newtonsoft), will give you the exact JSON that NEST will generate.

Checkout how the unit tests are done in NEST for more details, specifically this.