--
:api: flush-job
:request: FlushJobRequest
:response: FlushJobResponse
--
[role="xpack"]
[id="{upid}-{api}"]
=== Flush Job API

The Flush Job API provides the ability to flush a {ml} job's 
datafeed in the cluster.
It accepts a +{request}+ object and responds
with a +{response}+ object.

[id="{upid}-{api}-request"]
==== Flush Job Request

A +{request}+ object gets created with an existing non-null `jobId`.
All other fields are optional for the request.

["source","java",subs="attributes,callouts,macros"]
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include-tagged::{doc-tests-file}[{api}-request]
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<1> Constructing a new request referencing an existing `jobId`

==== Optional Arguments

The following arguments are optional.

["source","java",subs="attributes,callouts,macros"]
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include-tagged::{doc-tests-file}[{api}-request-options]
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<1> Set request to calculate the interim results
<2> Set the advanced time to flush to the particular time value
<3> Set the start time for the range of buckets on which
to calculate the interim results (requires `calc_interim` to be `true`)
<4> Set the end time for the range of buckets on which
to calculate interim results (requires `calc_interim` to be `true`)
<5> Set the skip time to skip a particular time value

[id="{upid}-{api}-response"]
==== Flush Job Response

A +{response}+ contains an acknowledgement and an optional end date for the
last finalized bucket

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include-tagged::{doc-tests-file}[{api}-response]
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<1> `isFlushed()` indicates if the job was successfully flushed or not.
<2> `getLastFinalizedBucketEnd()` provides the timestamp
(in milliseconds-since-the-epoch) of the end of the last bucket that was processed.

include::../execution.asciidoc[]