Disable id creation?

Elastic Stack Elasticsearch
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I haven't been able to find a way to tell ES to use the _id property in my
source instead of auto-generating one.

I think my use case justifies a need for this. I write all of my indexed
JSON objects to S3 for backup purposes. When I read these files out of S3, I
read them into a byte array and I would like to directly index these values.
However, if I create my IndexRequest without specifying an index, I was
hoping that ES would use the _id value from my source. Instead, ES generates
a new id and compares it to my source's id and tells me there is a mismatch.

Is there an option to change this behavior?

2

elasticsearch needs to know the id in order to control the routing of the
document indexed to a shard. It can, potentially, do that for you (and parse
it twice), or you can do it yourself. Open an issue to allow for a mapping
setting to "search" for the id (something like id path, similar in nature to
routing path).

On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 10:51 PM, James Cook jcook@tracermedia.com wrote:

I haven't been able to find a way to tell ES to use the _id property in my
source instead of auto-generating one.

I think my use case justifies a need for this. I write all of my indexed
JSON objects to S3 for backup purposes. When I read these files out of S3, I
read them into a byte array and I would like to directly index these values.
However, if I create my IndexRequest without specifying an index, I was
hoping that ES would use the _id value from my source. Instead, ES generates
a new id and compares it to my source's id and tells me there is a mismatch.

Is there an option to change this behavior?