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ElasticSearch Cookbook

By : Alberto Paro
Book Image

ElasticSearch Cookbook

By: Alberto Paro

Overview of this book

ElasticSearch is one of the most promising NoSQL technologies available and is built to provide a scalable search solution with built-in support for near real-time search and multi-tenancy. This practical guide is a complete reference for using ElasticSearch and covers 360 degrees of the ElasticSearch ecosystem. We will get started by showing you how to choose the correct transport layer, communicate with the server, and create custom internal actions for boosting tailored needs. Starting with the basics of the ElasticSearch architecture and how to efficiently index, search, and execute analytics on it, you will learn how to extend ElasticSearch by scripting and monitoring its behaviour. Step-by-step, this book will help you to improve your ability to manage data in indexing with more tailored mappings, along with searching and executing analytics with facets. The topics explored in the book also cover how to integrate ElasticSearch with Python and Java applications. This comprehensive guide will allow you to master storing, searching, and analyzing data with ElasticSearch.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
ElasticSearch Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Updating a document


Documents stored in ElasticSearch can be updated during their lives. There are two available solutions to do this operation in ElasticSearch: repost the new document or use the update call.

The update call can work in the following two ways:

  • By providing a script which is the update strategy

  • By providing a document that must be merged with the original one

Getting ready

You need a working ElasticSearch cluster and the indexed document which we discussed in the Indexing a document recipe.

How to do it...

As we are changing the state of the data the HTTP method is POST and the following is the REST URL:

http://<server>/<index_name>/<type_name>/<id>/_update

For updating a document, we need to perform the following steps:

  1. If we consider the type order of the previous recipe, the call to update a document will be as follows:

    curl -XPOST 'http://localhost:9200/myindex/order/2qLrAfPVQvCRMe7Ku8r0Tw/_update' –d '{
    "script" : "ctx._source.in_stock_items += count...