Edits to text in Update API doc (#39069)

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Darren Meiss 2019-02-20 04:39:35 -05:00 committed by Daniel Mitterdorfer
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The update API allows to update a document based on a script provided.
The operation gets the document (collocated with the shard) from the
index, runs the script (with optional script language and parameters),
and index back the result (also allows to delete, or ignore the
and indexes back the result (also allows to delete, or ignore the
operation). It uses versioning to make sure no updates have happened
during the "get" and "reindex".
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// CONSOLE
// TEST[continued]
We can add a tag to the list of tags (note, if the tag exists, it
will still add it, since it's a list):
We can add a tag to the list of tags (if the tag exists, it
still gets added, since this is a list):
[source,js]
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// TEST[continued]
In addition to `_source`, the following variables are available through
the `ctx` map: `_index`, `_type`, `_id`, `_version`, `_routing`
the `ctx` map: `_index`, `_type`, `_id`, `_version`, `_routing`,
and `_now` (the current timestamp).
We can also add a new field to the document:
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// TEST[continued]
And, we can even change the operation that is executed. This example deletes
the doc if the `tags` field contain `green`, otherwise it does nothing
the doc if the `tags` field contains `green`, otherwise it does nothing
(`noop`):
[source,js]
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[float]
=== Updates with a partial document
The update API also support passing a partial document,
The update API also supports passing a partial document,
which will be merged into the existing document (simple recursive merge,
inner merging of objects, replacing core "keys/values" and arrays).
To fully replace the existing document, the <<docs-index_,`index` API>> should
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=== Detecting noop updates
If `doc` is specified its value is merged with the existing `_source`.
By default updates that don't change anything detect that they don't change anything and return "result": "noop" like this:
By default updates that don't change anything detect that they don't change anything and return `"result": "noop"` like this:
[source,js]
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// TESTRESPONSE
You can disable this behavior by setting "detect_noop": false like this:
You can disable this behavior by setting `"detect_noop": false` like this:
[source,js]
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`refresh`::
Control when the changes made by this request are visible to search. See
<<docs-refresh>>.
<<docs-refresh, refresh>>.
`_source`::
Allows to control if and how the updated source should be returned in the response.
By default the updated source is not returned.
See <<search-request-source-filtering, `source filtering`>> for details.
See <<search-request-source-filtering, Source filtering>> for details.
`version`::
The update API uses the Elasticsearch's versioning support internally to make
The update API uses the Elasticsearch versioning support internally to make
sure the document doesn't change during the update. You can use the `version`
parameter to specify that the document should only be updated if its version
matches the one specified.
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.The update API does not support versioning other than internal
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External (version types `external` & `external_gte`) or forced (version type `force`)
External (version types `external` and `external_gte`) or forced (version type `force`)
versioning is not supported by the update API as it would result in Elasticsearch
version numbers being out of sync with the external system. Use the
<<docs-index_,`index` API>> instead.