Auto generated id

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Hi everyone,

I went over the Java code examples, and I saw that whenver
IndexResponse is created, the id value is always code-generated, i.e.

      for (int j = 0; j < BATCH; j++) {
                counter++;

request.add(Requests.indexRequest("test").type("type1").id(Integer.toString(counter))
.source(source(Integer.toString(counter),
sValues[counter % sValues.length], lValues[counter %
lValues.length])));
}

However, I would like to use something other than incrementing
counter, because in my project I have to index new document within
listener event, so I want to avoid using global variables. Is there
any way to create new id on the fly using Java classes from ES
library?

Thanks,
Eugene.

2

Just provide whatever id you want, if you don't provide one, then one will be generated for you.
On Wednesday, March 9, 2011 at 10:19 AM, eugene wrote:

Hi everyone,

I went over the Java code examples, and I saw that whenver
IndexResponse is created, the id value is always code-generated, i.e.

for (int j = 0; j < BATCH; j++) {
counter++;

request.add(Requests.indexRequest("test").type("type1").id(Integer.toString(counter))
.source(source(Integer.toString(counter),
sValues[counter % sValues.length], lValues[counter %
lValues.length])));
}

However, I would like to use something other than incrementing
counter, because in my project I have to index new document within
listener event, so I want to avoid using global variables. Is there
any way to create new id on the fly using Java classes from ES
library?

Thanks,
Eugene.

3

Thanks Shay, that worked! From your experience, is it better to put
muliple documents under one index, or create more indices for each
document (which I doubt is a good idea because you may run out of
space), or different types per single index for each new json entry?

On Mar 9, 12:24 am, Shay Banon shay.ba...@elasticsearch.com wrote:

Just provide whatever id you want, if you don't provide one, then one will be generated for you.

On Wednesday, March 9, 2011 at 10:19 AM, eugene wrote:

Hi everyone,

I went over the Java code examples, and I saw that whenver
IndexResponse is created, the id value is always code-generated, i.e.

for (int j = 0; j < BATCH; j++) {
counter++;

request.add(Requests.indexRequest("test").type("type1").id(Integer.toString­(counter))
.source(source(Integer.toString(counter),
sValues[counter % sValues.length], lValues[counter %
lValues.length])));
}

However, I would like to use something other than incrementing
counter, because in my project I have to index new document within
listener event, so I want to avoid using global variables. Is there
any way to create new id on the fly using Java classes from ES
library?

Thanks,
Eugene.- Hide quoted text -

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