Jörg - thanks for the thoughtful reply. Rephrasing my question a bit: how
can the code be sure that an update request was at least submitted to ES
without an error? Surely, an update request may fail due to various runtime
issues.
On Wednesday, October 1, 2014 12:21:15 PM UTC+3, Aviv Eyal wrote:
>
> Hi, I'm new to elasticsearch so there might be an obvious answer to this
> question.
>
> What's the best way to check the status of an update operation that
> changed the value of an existing property?
> I'm using a doc to update an existing indexed document using the java
> update api:
>
> UpdateResponse updateResponse = client.prepareUpdate("content",
> "contentitem", item.id)
> .setDoc(xb).execute().actionGet();
>
> updateResponse.isCreated() only returns true if the doc was inserted using
> an upsert operation and updateResponse.getGetResult() returns null null.
>
> I've looked in the ES tests source code and the way the test is performed
> there is by issuing a new get request for the updated fields and comparing
> the values from ES with the values set in the update:
>
> // change existing field
> updateResponse = client().prepareUpdate(indexOrAlias(), "type1",
> "1").setDoc(XContentFactory.jsonBuilder().startObject().field("field",
> 3).endObject()).execute().actionGet();
> for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
> getResponse = client().prepareGet("test", "type1",
> "1").execute().actionGet();
>
> assertThat(getResponse.getSourceAsMap().get("field").toString(),
> equalTo("3"));
>
> assertThat(getResponse.getSourceAsMap().get("field2").toString(),
> equalTo("2"));
> }
>
> I'm curious if this can be done just by using UpdateResponse and without
> using another get.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
>
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