From eb1900265fb3f077cf104c0944d8832a8d48012e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jay Severson <j.severson@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 11:37:28 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Hide exceptions if elasticsearch is not running. This needs
 some fixing and cleaning up by someone smarter than myself.

---
 Client.php | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Client.php b/Client.php
index c868399..2d7ea17 100644
--- a/Client.php
+++ b/Client.php
@@ -20,7 +20,14 @@ class Client extends Elastica_Client
     public function request($path, $method, $data = array())
     {
         $start = microtime(true);
-        $response = parent::request($path, $method, $data);
+        //this is ghetto, but i couldnt figure out another way of making our site continue to behave normally even if ES was not running.
+        //Any improvements on this welcome. Perhaps another parameter that allows you to control if you want to ignore exceptions about ES not running
+        try {
+            $response = parent::request($path, $method, $data);
+        } catch(\Exception $e) {
+            //again, ghetto, but couldnt figure out how to return a default empty Elastica_Response
+            return new \Elastica_Response('{"took":0,"timed_out":false,"hits":{"total":0,"max_score":0,"hits":[]}}');
+        }
 
         if (null !== $this->logger) {
             $time = microtime(true) - $start;