# ActionRequest support for BulkProcessor in the Java API
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/actionrequest-support-for-bulkprocessor-in-the-java-api/22932
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 26, 2015, 7:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/actionrequest-support-for-bulkprocessor-in-the-java-api/22932 "2015-03-26T19:13:29Z")
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### Author:  [@Andre\_Encarnacao](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Andre_Encarnacao)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2015, 7:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/actionrequest-support-for-bulkprocessor-in-the-java-api/22932/1 "2015-03-26T19:13:29Z")
Hi,
I'm wondering why BulkProcessor (and BulkRequest) only supports
IndexRequest, UpdateRequest, and DeleteRequests, and not SearchRequests?
I'd like to be able to use Bulk Processor for processing multiple queries
instead of having to use the MultiSearch API. Is this not possible? And if
so, why not?
Thanks!
Andre
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### Author:  [@jprante](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jprante)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2015, 9:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/actionrequest-support-for-bulkprocessor-in-the-java-api/22932/2 "2015-03-27T09:00:43Z")
The BulkProcessor is a helper class for managing write requests where large
chunks of documents are combined into a single write request which saves a
lot of network acknowledging ping/pong.
If you send queries, there is a small write request, after which large
response chunks are read, so there is no ping/pong, and no bulk mode is
needed.
Jörg
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:13 PM, Andre Encarnacao \<
[andre.v.encarnacao@gmail.com](mailto:andre.v.encarnacao@gmail.com)\> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering why BulkProcessor (and BulkRequest) only supports
> IndexRequest, UpdateRequest, and DeleteRequests, and not SearchRequests?
> I'd like to be able to use Bulk Processor for processing multiple queries
> instead of having to use the MultiSearch API. Is this not possible? And if
> so, why not?
>
> Thanks!
> Andre
>
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 12:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/actionrequest-support-for-bulkprocessor-in-the-java-api/22932/3 "2017-07-06T00:23:30Z")