Adding _id to JSON instead of URL when adding doc

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I have the use case for adding the id to the json doc instead of the URL -
basically the URL has to be static (so I cannot add the id each time).
Other than using the Bulk creation option, is this possible via the REST
API?

So I want to send

{"_id": "my-id", "first_name": "Jason"}

to

http://my-es-server/index/type

Is there any way to allow ES to pick up that _id as the id so I can add it
there instead of the URL - which like I said needs to remain static.

Thanks.

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You can send a bulk request

http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-bulk.html

Jörg

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Jörg,

Thanks for your response, I knew the bulk request was an option, however is
there any performance impact using that method to send one off updates? I
just don't want to call the bulk request for single item additions/updates
if it is going to adversely affect performance. Any thoughts on this? My
gut tells me it should not, but it is a question I have to ask.

Thanks!

On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 1:47:31 AM UTC-6, Jörg Prante wrote:

You can send a bulk request

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Jörg

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Bulk request is in ES the same as single request, it is just concatenated
so a bulk can be sent from a client over the network in a single step,
saving a lot of roundtrips.

So if you send a single request, for ES it does not matter if you choose
single operation or bulk operation.

Jörg

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Excellent, thank you for the clarification. For some reason I was thinking
that the bulk operation might put a different type of load on the service
just to spin up that operation.

Again, thanks for your time!

On Wednesday, January 15, 2014 8:06:32 AM UTC-6, Jörg Prante wrote:

Bulk request is in ES the same as single request, it is just concatenated
so a bulk can be sent from a client over the network in a single step,
saving a lot of roundtrips.

So if you send a single request, for ES it does not matter if you choose
single operation or bulk operation.

Jörg

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