Ch 5. Document Operations

Indexing Documents

Indexing a movie document with an identifier:

//Request
PUT movies/_doc/1
{
  "title":"The Godfather",
  "synopsis":"The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son"
}

// REsponse:
{
  "_index" : "movies",
  "_type" : "_doc",
  "_id" : "1",
  "_version" : 1,
  "_seq_no" : 0,
  "_primary_term" : 1,
  "found" : true,
  "_source" : {
    "title" : "The Godfather",
    "synopsis" : "The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son"
  }
}

Indexing documents without an ID

Indexing a movie review document - the document isn't expected to have an ID provided by the user (note the POST method invocation):

// Request
POST movies_reviews/_doc
{
  "movie":"The Godfather",
  "user":"Peter Piper",
  "rating":4.5,
  "remarks":"The movie started with a .."
}

// Response:
{
  "_index" : "movies_reviews",
  "_type" : "_doc",
  "_id" : "6HPnfXoBW8A1B2am0B5U",
  "_version" : 1,
  "result" : "created",
  "_shards" : {
    "total" : 4,
    "successful" : 1,
    "failed" : 0
  },
  "_seq_no" : 0,
  "_primary_term" : 1
}

The ID was not provided by the user. System generated one (6HPnfXoBW8A1B2am0B5U) and assigned to the document