[role="xpack"]
[testenv="basic"]
[[indices-reload-analyzers]]
== Reload search analyzers API
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<titleabbrev>Reload search analyzers</titleabbrev>
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Reloads an index's <<search-analyzer,search analyzers>> and their resources.

[source,console]
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POST /twitter/_reload_search_analyzers
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// TEST[setup:twitter]

[discrete]
[[indices-reload-analyzers-api-request]]
=== {api-request-title}

`POST /<index>/_reload_search_analyzers`

`GET /<index>/_reload_search_analyzers`


[discrete]
[[indices-reload-analyzers-api-desc]]
=== {api-description-title}

You can use the reload search analyzers API
to pick up changes to synonym files
used in the <<analysis-synonym-graph-tokenfilter,`synonym_graph`>>
or <<analysis-synonym-tokenfilter,`synonym`>> token filter
of a <<search-analyzer,search analyzer>>.
To be eligible,
the token filter must have an `updateable` flag of `true`
and only be used in search analyzers.

[NOTE]
====
This API does not perform a reload
for each shard of an index.
Instead,
it performs a reload for each node
containing index shards.
As a result,
the total shard count returned by the API
can differ from the number of index shards.

Because reloading affects every node with an index shard,
its important to update the synonym file
on every data node in the cluster,
including nodes that don't contain a shard replica,
before using this API.
This ensures the synonym file is updated
everywhere in the cluster
in case shards are relocated
in the future.
====


[discrete]
[[indices-reload-analyzers-api-path-params]]
=== {api-path-parms-title}

`<index>`::
(Required, string)
Comma-separated list or wildcard expression of index names
used to limit the request.


[discrete]
[[indices-reload-analyzers-api-query-params]]
=== {api-query-parms-title}

include::{docdir}/rest-api/common-parms.asciidoc[tag=allow-no-indices]
+
Defaults to `true`.

include::{docdir}/rest-api/common-parms.asciidoc[tag=expand-wildcards]
+
Defaults to `open`.

include::{docdir}/rest-api/common-parms.asciidoc[tag=index-ignore-unavailable]


[discrete]
[[indices-reload-analyzers-api-example]]
=== {api-examples-title}

Use the <<indices-create-index, create index API>>
to create an index with a search analyzer
that contains an updateable synonym filter.

NOTE: Using the following analyzer as an index analyzer results in an error.

[source,console]
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PUT /my_index
{
    "settings": {
        "index" : {
            "analysis" : {
                "analyzer" : {
                    "my_synonyms" : {
                        "tokenizer" : "whitespace",
                        "filter" : ["synonym"]
                    }
                },
                "filter" : {
                    "synonym" : {
                        "type" : "synonym_graph",
                        "synonyms_path" : "analysis/synonym.txt", <1>
                        "updateable" : true <2>
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "mappings": {
        "properties": {
            "text": {
                "type": "text",
                "analyzer" : "standard",
                "search_analyzer": "my_synonyms" <3>
            }
        }
    }
}
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<1> Includes a synonym file.
<2> Marks the token filter as updateable.
<3> Marks the analyzer as a search analyzer.

After updating the synonym file,
use the <<indices-reload-analyzers,analyzer reload API>>
to reload the search analyzer
and pick up the file changes.

[source,console]
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POST /my_index/_reload_search_analyzers
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// TEST[continued]

The API returns the following response.

[source,console-result]
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{
    "_shards" : {
        "total" : 2,
        "successful" : 2,
        "failed" : 0
    },
    "reload_details" : [
        {
            "index" : "my_index",
            "reloaded_analyzers" : [
                "my_synonyms" 
            ],
            "reloaded_node_ids" : [
                "mfdqTXn_T7SGr2Ho2KT8uw"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
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// TEST[continued]
// TESTRESPONSE[s/"total" : 2/"total" : $body._shards.total/]
// TESTRESPONSE[s/"successful" : 2/"successful" : $body._shards.successful/]
// TESTRESPONSE[s/mfdqTXn_T7SGr2Ho2KT8uw/$body.reload_details.0.reloaded_node_ids.0/]