Understand async and wait_for mode

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Hi,

A question about the async mode (when I don't specify the option 'refresh=wait_for') and when I specify.
Qeustion: in the same index I have 2 documents: 'A' and 'B'.
If I update the document 'A' with no refresh option and just after, in the same thread(java), I update the document 'B' with the option 'refresh=wait_for', when I have the update response for B, Can I consider that the 'index process' for document 'A' is also finished ? (We expect the fact that an error can occurs for the document 'A')

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It depends. ?refresh=wait_for ensures that all successfully-completed writes to affected shards are now visible, but there's no guarantee that document A is in one of those shards.

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Ok understood, it makes sense.
Thank you.

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