Say I have documents stored like below.
document 1
{
id : '1',
title : "This is a test document1",
list : ["value1" , "value2"],
...
}
document 2
{
id : '2',
title : "This is a test document2",
valueList : ["value1" , "value2"],
...
}
I need to add some more elements to the valueList in the documents with a list of document ids using bulk api. The resulting should look like
document 1
{
id : '1',
title : "This is a test document1",
list : ["value1" , "value2", "value3"],
...
}
document 2
{
id : '2',
title : "This is a test document2",
valueList : ["value1" , "value2" , "value3"],
...
}
What can I do to achieve this? I tried using the scripts but it only updates a single document.
Sorry am really new to elastic search. I could even be stupid on this question. Please forgive and make me clear with this question.
See Updating Document. It should be straightforward. You need to use _update and just to give you an idea, even though the documentation is nearly perfect, it could look like this:
POST /your_index/your_type/document1/_update
{
id : '1',
title : "This is a test document1",
list : ["value1" , "value2", "value3"]
}
This will update document1.
In case of bulk updates you should read Batch Processing and have a look at the Bulk API.
From the docs:
POST /your_index/your_type/_bulk
{ "update" : {"_id" : "document1", "_type" : "your_type", "_index" : "your_index"}}
{ "doc" : {"myfield" : "newvalue"} }
{ "update" : {"_id" : "document2", "_type" : "your_type", "_index" : "your_index"}}
{ "doc" : {"myfield" : "newvalue"} }
Please note that you can just use _update for Partial Updates.
The simplest form of the update request accepts a partial document as the doc parameter, which just gets merged with the existing document. Objects are merged together, existing scalar fields are overwritten, and new fields are added.