Thanks Luca -- that should do the job.

The cat shards endpoint also looks relevant:
http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/cat-shards.html

Best regards,
 - Daniel


On 17 February 2014 08:43, Luca Cavanna <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'd have a look at the search shards api, which given a search request
> returns which shards (and nodes) it would get executed on, without actually
> executing it. Have a look at issue #2726 .
>
>
> On Sunday, February 16, 2014 11:09:01 PM UTC+1, Daniel Winterstein wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is it possible to find out (a) which logical shard a document is in, and
>> (b) which servers are holding that shard?
>> These are documents with parents, so setRouting() is used when indexing.
>>
>> NB: I'm working in Java using the Java client.
>>
>> Why?
>> I want to do distributed computation, where the processing for a document
>> happens on the server holding the data.
>> I'm using a parent-child routing scheme, which means that large blocks of
>> related data will end up in the same shard.
>> Shifting computation to be near data, rather than vice-versa, would make a
>> significant difference.
>> Also, I'm thinking the holding servers can be used as part of coordinating
>> the distribution of jobs.
>>
>> Thank you for any help,
>>  - Daniel
>>
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