Ajax Query Format With Elasticsearch

I am trying to make a post request with AJAX to my elasticsearch index. The cURL result is: [~]$ curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/firebase/_search?q=song:i%20am%20in' {'took':172

Solution 1:

Change the method to GET and dateType to json. Also the querystring requires a q parameter.

     var data = {
         'q': 'song:' + $('#message').val()
     };

     $.ajax({
        type: "GET",
        url: "http://localhost:9200/firebase/_search",
        contentType: 'application/json',
        data: JSON.stringify(data),
        success: searchSuccess,
        dataType: 'json'
    });