# Removing TTL during document update

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/removing-ttl-during-document-update/16914>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 9, 2014, 11:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/removing-ttl-during-document-update/16914 "2014-04-09T23:44:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![slushi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3e96dc/32.png) [@slushi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/slushi)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2014, 11:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/removing-ttl-during-document-update/16914/1 "2014-04-09T23:44:22Z")

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I am trying to remove the TTL setting when doing a document update  
(doc\_as\_upsert) via the java api. I do the following:

UpdateRequestBuilder b = new UpdateRequestBuilder(client);

b.setDocAsUpsert(true);

b.setDoc(dataMap);  
...

UpdateRequest request = b.request();

request.doc().ttl(null);

...

If I set a value here instead of null, the TTL is successfully updated.  
However passing null doesn't seem to remove the TTL. Is there another way  
to do this? The comments for the ttl(Long) method seem to indicate passing  
null should reset the TTL (I am on 0.90.11)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/removing-ttl-during-document-update/16914/2 "2017-07-06T01:37:00Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 1:37am UTC