Hi Luca, That's what I assumed, thanks for clarifying though. I'll need to decide if its less work to occasionally re-index all the user's content, or just use the user's (immutable) numeric ID and look this up prior to searching.
Thanks Graham On Monday, February 17, 2014 8:35:10 AM UTC, Luca Cavanna wrote: > > Hi Graham, > being the routing key the way to decide where the document gets indexed, > you need to delete the original document by specying the old routing key, > then reindex it with the new one, so that it will get indexed again, but > this time most likely in a different shard. > > By the way, even using the update api with default routing, what happens > under the hood is a delete + index, just a bit more optimized as it happens > internally and you make a single http request, but that's exactly how > lucene works (no update at lucene level). > > On Monday, February 17, 2014 12:11:47 AM UTC+1, Graham Bradley wrote: >> >> Hi, I'm pretty new to ElasticSearch and am starting to look into custom >> routing. I'd like to use my user's usernames as the routing key, as a >> frequent operation will be to find a particular user's content. >> >> I'm sending the routing value along with each indexing call, and this is >> all fine apart from the update API (my application lets users change their >> username, so I need to be able to update all content with a certain >> username). I can specify the routing key in the update call, however this >> obviously finds the document to be updated, rather than letting me update >> the routing. >> >> Is there any way to update a document's routing value without deleting >> and re-indexing manually? I understand that _update essentially reindexes >> the document anyway, but doing so without resending the entire document >> would be good. >> >> Thanks for any pointers. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/71383259-3d5e-41ef-a63a-f40bb6cbed07%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
