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Multi-Get API

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Multi-Get API

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The multiGet API executes multiple get requests in a single http request in parallel.

Multi-Get Request

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A MultiGetRequest is built empty and you add `MultiGetRequest.Item`s to configure what to fetch:

MultiGetRequest request = new MultiGetRequest();
request.add(new MultiGetRequest.Item(
    "index",         
    "type",          
    "example_id"));  
request.add(new MultiGetRequest.Item("index", "type", "another_id"));

	Index
	Type
	Document id
	Add another item to fetch

Optional arguments

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multiGet supports the same optional arguments that the get API supports. You can set most of these on the Item:

request.add(new MultiGetRequest.Item("index", "type", "example_id")
    .fetchSourceContext(FetchSourceContext.DO_NOT_FETCH_SOURCE));

Disable source retrieval, enabled by default

String[] includes = new String[] {"foo", "*r"};
String[] excludes = Strings.EMPTY_ARRAY;
FetchSourceContext fetchSourceContext =
        new FetchSourceContext(true, includes, excludes);
request.add(new MultiGetRequest.Item("index", "type", "example_id")
    .fetchSourceContext(fetchSourceContext));

Configure source inclusion for specific fields

String[] includes = Strings.EMPTY_ARRAY;
String[] excludes = new String[] {"foo", "*r"};
FetchSourceContext fetchSourceContext =
        new FetchSourceContext(true, includes, excludes);
request.add(new MultiGetRequest.Item("index", "type", "example_id")
    .fetchSourceContext(fetchSourceContext));

Configure source exclusion for specific fields

request.add(new MultiGetRequest.Item("index", "type", "example_id")
    .storedFields("foo"));  
MultiGetResponse response = client.mget(request, RequestOptions.DEFAULT);
MultiGetItemResponse item = response.getResponses()[0];
String value = item.getResponse().getField("foo").getValue();

	Configure retrieval for specific stored fields (requires fields to be stored separately in the mappings)
	Retrieve the `foo` stored field (requires the field to be stored separately in the mappings)

request.add(new MultiGetRequest.Item("index", "type", "with_routing")
    .routing("some_routing"));          
request.add(new MultiGetRequest.Item("index", "type", "with_parent")
    .parent("some_parent"));            
request.add(new MultiGetRequest.Item("index", "type", "with_version")
    .versionType(VersionType.EXTERNAL)  
    .version(10123L));

	Routing value
	Parent value
	Version
	Version type

preference, realtime and refresh can be set on the main request but not on any items:

request.preference("some_preference");  
request.realtime(false);                
request.refresh(true);

	Preference value
	Set realtime flag to `false` (`true` by default)
	Perform a refresh before retrieving the document (`false` by default)

Synchronous Execution

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When executing a MultiGetRequest in the following manner, the client waits for the MultiGetResponse to be returned before continuing with code execution:

MultiGetResponse response = client.mget(request, RequestOptions.DEFAULT);

Synchronous calls may throw an IOException in case of either failing to parse the REST response in the high-level REST client, the request times out or similar cases where there is no response coming back from the server.

In cases where the server returns a 4xx or 5xx error code, the high-level client tries to parse the response body error details instead and then throws a generic ElasticsearchException and adds the original ResponseException as a suppressed exception to it.

Asynchronous Execution

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Executing a MultiGetRequest can also be done in an asynchronous fashion so that the client can return directly. Users need to specify how the response or potential failures will be handled by passing the request and a listener to the asynchronous multi-get method:

client.mgetAsync(request, RequestOptions.DEFAULT, listener);

The MultiGetRequest to execute and the ActionListener to use when the execution completes

The asynchronous method does not block and returns immediately. Once it is completed the ActionListener is called back using the onResponse method if the execution successfully completed or using the onFailure method if it failed. Failure scenarios and expected exceptions are the same as in the synchronous execution case.

A typical listener for multi-get looks like:

listener = new ActionListener<MultiGetResponse>() {
    @Override
    public void onResponse(MultiGetResponse response) {
        
    }

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

	Called when the execution is successfully completed.
	Called when the whole `MultiGetRequest` fails.

Multi Get Response

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The returned MultiGetResponse contains a list of MultiGetItemResponse`s in `getResponses in the same order that they were requested. MultiGetItemResponse contains either a GetResponse if the get succeeded or a MultiGetResponse.Failure if it failed. A success looks just like a normal GetResponse.

MultiGetItemResponse firstItem = response.getResponses()[0];
assertNull(firstItem.getFailure());              
GetResponse firstGet = firstItem.getResponse();  
String index = firstItem.getIndex();
String type = firstItem.getType();
String id = firstItem.getId();
if (firstGet.isExists()) {
    long version = firstGet.getVersion();
    String sourceAsString = firstGet.getSourceAsString();        
    Map<String, Object> sourceAsMap = firstGet.getSourceAsMap(); 
    byte[] sourceAsBytes = firstGet.getSourceAsBytes();          
} else {
    
}

	`getFailure` returns null because there isn’t a failure.
	`getResponse` returns the `GetResponse`.
	Retrieve the document as a `String`
	Retrieve the document as a `Map<String, Object>`
	Retrieve the document as a `byte[]`
	Handle the scenario where the document was not found. Note that although the returned response has `404` status code, a valid `GetResponse` is returned rather than an exception thrown. Such response does not hold any source document and its `isExists` method returns `false`.

When one of the subrequests as performed against an index that does not exist getFailure will contain an exception:

assertNull(missingIndexItem.getResponse());                
Exception e = missingIndexItem.getFailure().getFailure();  
ElasticsearchException ee = (ElasticsearchException) e;    
// TODO status is broken! fix in a followup
// assertEquals(RestStatus.NOT_FOUND, ee.status());        
assertThat(e.getMessage(),
    containsString("reason=no such index"));

	`getResponse` is null.
	`getFailure` isn’t and contains an `Exception`.
	That `Exception` is actually an `ElasticsearchException`
	and it has a status of `NOT_FOUND`. It’d have been an HTTP 404 if this wasn’t a multi get.
	`getMessage` explains the actual cause, `no such index`.

In case a specific document version has been requested, and the existing document has a different version number, a version conflict is raised:

MultiGetRequest request = new MultiGetRequest();
request.add(new MultiGetRequest.Item("index", "type", "example_id")
    .version(1000L));
MultiGetResponse response = client.mget(request, RequestOptions.DEFAULT);
MultiGetItemResponse item = response.getResponses()[0];
assertNull(item.getResponse());                          
Exception e = item.getFailure().getFailure();            
ElasticsearchException ee = (ElasticsearchException) e;  
// TODO status is broken! fix in a followup
// assertEquals(RestStatus.CONFLICT, ee.status());          
assertThat(e.getMessage(),
    containsString("version conflict, current version [1] is "
        + "different than the one provided [1000]"));

	`getResponse` is null.
	`getFailure` isn’t and contains an `Exception`.
	That `Exception` is actuall and `ElasticsearchException`
	and it has a status of `CONFLICT`. It’d have been an HTTP 409 if this wasn’t a multi get.
	`getMessage` explains the actual cause, `

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