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Index API

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Index API

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Index Request

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An IndexRequest requires the following arguments:

IndexRequest request = new IndexRequest(
        "posts", 
        "doc",  
        "1");   
String jsonString = "{" +
        "\"user\":\"kimchy\"," +
        "\"postDate\":\"2013-01-30\"," +
        "\"message\":\"trying out Elasticsearch\"" +
        "}";
request.source(jsonString, XContentType.JSON);

	Index
	Type
	Document id
	Document source provided as a `String`

Providing the document source

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The document source can be provided in different ways:

Map<String, Object> jsonMap = new HashMap<>();
jsonMap.put("user", "kimchy");
jsonMap.put("postDate", new Date());
jsonMap.put("message", "trying out Elasticsearch");
IndexRequest indexRequest = new IndexRequest("posts", "doc", "1")
        .source(jsonMap);

Document source provided as a Map which gets automatically converted to JSON format

XContentBuilder builder = XContentFactory.jsonBuilder();
builder.startObject();
{
    builder.field("user", "kimchy");
    builder.field("postDate", new Date());
    builder.field("message", "trying out Elasticsearch");
}
builder.endObject();
IndexRequest indexRequest = new IndexRequest("posts", "doc", "1")
        .source(builder);

Document source provided as an XContentBuilder object, the Elasticsearch built-in helpers to generate JSON content

IndexRequest indexRequest = new IndexRequest("posts", "doc", "1")
        .source("user", "kimchy",
                "postDate", new Date(),
                "message", "trying out Elasticsearch");

Document source provided as Object key-pairs, which gets converted to JSON format

Optional arguments

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The following arguments can optionally be provided:

request.routing("routing");

Routing value

request.parent("parent");

Parent value

request.timeout(TimeValue.timeValueSeconds(1)); 
request.timeout("1s");

	Timeout to wait for primary shard to become available as a `TimeValue`
	Timeout to wait for primary shard to become available as a `String`

request.setRefreshPolicy(WriteRequest.RefreshPolicy.WAIT_UNTIL); 
request.setRefreshPolicy("wait_for");

	Refresh policy as a `WriteRequest.RefreshPolicy` instance
	Refresh policy as a `String`

request.version(2);

Version

request.versionType(VersionType.EXTERNAL);

Version type

request.opType(DocWriteRequest.OpType.CREATE); 
request.opType("create");

	Operation type provided as an `DocWriteRequest.OpType` value
	Operation type provided as a `String`: can be `create` or `update` (default)

request.setPipeline("pipeline");

The name of the ingest pipeline to be executed before indexing the document

Synchronous Execution

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IndexResponse indexResponse = client.index(request);

Asynchronous Execution

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client.indexAsync(request, new ActionListener<IndexResponse>() {
    @Override
    public void onResponse(IndexResponse indexResponse) {
        
    }

    @Override
    public void onFailure(Exception e) {
        
    }
});

	Called when the execution is successfully completed. The response is provided as an argument
	Called in case of failure. The raised exception is provided as an argument

Index Response

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The returned IndexResponse allows to retrieve information about the executed operation as follows:

String index = indexResponse.getIndex();
String type = indexResponse.getType();
String id = indexResponse.getId();
long version = indexResponse.getVersion();
if (indexResponse.getResult() == DocWriteResponse.Result.CREATED) {
    
} else if (indexResponse.getResult() == DocWriteResponse.Result.UPDATED) {
    
}
ReplicationResponse.ShardInfo shardInfo = indexResponse.getShardInfo();
if (shardInfo.getTotal() != shardInfo.getSuccessful()) {
    
}
if (shardInfo.getFailed() > 0) {
    for (ReplicationResponse.ShardInfo.Failure failure : shardInfo.getFailures()) {
        String reason = failure.reason(); 
    }
}

	Handle (if needed) the case where the document was created for the first time
	Handle (if needed) the case where the document was rewritten as it was already existing
	Handle the situation where number of successful shards is less than total shards
	Handle the potential failures

If there is a version conflict, an ElasticsearchException will be thrown:

IndexRequest request = new IndexRequest("posts", "doc", "1")
        .source("field", "value")
        .version(1);
try {
    IndexResponse response = client.index(request);
} catch(ElasticsearchException e) {
    if (e.status() == RestStatus.CONFLICT) {
        
    }
}

The raised exception indicates that a version conflict error was returned

Same will happen in case opType was set to create and a document with same index, type and id already existed:

IndexRequest request = new IndexRequest("posts", "doc", "1")
        .source("field", "value")
        .opType(DocWriteRequest.OpType.CREATE);
try {
    IndexResponse response = client.index(request);
} catch(ElasticsearchException e) {
    if (e.status() == RestStatus.CONFLICT) {
        
    }
}

The raised exception indicates that a version conflict error was returned

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