Elasticsearch PHP client throwing exception "No alive nodes found in your cluster"

Question

I am trying to do a scan and scroll operation on an index as shown in the example :

$client = ClientBuilder::create()->setHosts([MYESHOST])->build();
$params = [
    "search_type" => "scan",    // use search_type=scan
    "scroll" => "30s",          // how long between scroll requests. should be small!
    "size" => 50,               // how many results *per shard* you want back
    "index" => "my_index",
    "body" => [
        "query" => [
            "match_all" => []
        ]
    ]
];

$docs = $client->search($params);   // Execute the search
$scroll_id = $docs['_scroll_id'];   // The response will contain no results, just a _scroll_id

// Now we loop until the scroll "cursors" are exhausted
while (\true) {

    // Execute a Scroll request
    $response = $client->scroll([
            "scroll_id" => $scroll_id,  //...using our previously obtained _scroll_id
            "scroll" => "30s"           // and the same timeout window
        ]
    );

    // Check to see if we got any search hits from the scroll
    if (count($response['hits']['hits']) > 0) {
        // If yes, Do Work Here

        // Get new scroll_id
        // Must always refresh your _scroll_id!  It can change sometimes
        $scroll_id = $response['_scroll_id'];
    } else {
        // No results, scroll cursor is empty.  You've exported all the data
        break;
    }
}

The first $client->search($params) API call executes fine and I am able to get back the scroll id. But $client->scroll() API fails and I am getting the exception : "Elasticsearch\Common\Exceptions\NoNodesAvailableException No alive nodes found in your cluster"

I am using Elasticsearch 1.7.1 and PHP 5.6.11

Please help

Answer 1

I would guess the example is not up to date with the version you're using (the link you've provided is to 2.0, and you are sauing you use 1.7.1). Just add inside the loop:

try {
      $response = $client->scroll([
            "scroll_id" => $scroll_id,  //...using our previously obtained _scroll_id
            "scroll" => "30s"           // and the same timeout window
        ]
    );
}catch (Elasticsearch\Common\Exceptions\NoNodesAvailableException $e) {
   break;
}