update #

Applies partial changes to a document. The document must exist in the storage layer.

Query Syntax #

HTTP #

Available since 2.11.0

URL: http://kuzzle:7512/<index>/<collection>/<_id>/_update[?refresh=wait_for][&retryOnConflict=<int>][&source][&silent]
Method: PATCH
Body:

Deprecated since 2.11.0

URL: http://kuzzle:7512/<index>/<collection>/<_id>/_update[?refresh=wait_for][&retryOnConflict=<int>][&source][&silent]
Method: PUT
Body:

{
  // document changes
}

Other protocols #

{
  "index": "<index>",
  "collection": "<collection>",
  "controller": "document",
  "action": "update",
  "_id": "<documentId>",
  "body": {
    // document changes
  }
}

Kourou #

kourou document:update <index> <collection> <id> <body>
kourou document:update <index> <collection> <id> <body> -a silent=true

Arguments #

_id: unique identifier of the document to update
collection: collection name
index: index name

Optional #

refresh: if set to wait_for, Kuzzle will not respond until the update is indexed
retryOnConflict: conflicts may occur if the same document gets updated multiple times within a short timespan, in a database cluster. You can set the retryOnConflict optional argument (with a retry count), to tell Kuzzle to retry the failing updates the specified amount of times before rejecting the request with an error.
source: if set to true Kuzzle will return the entire updated document body in the response.
silent: if set, then Kuzzle will not generate notifications
Available since 2.9.2

Body properties #

Partial changes to apply to the document.

Response #

Returns information about the updated document:

_id: document unique identifier
_version: updated document version
_source: contains only changes or the full document if source is set to true

{
  "status": 200,
  "error": null,
  "index": "<index>",
  "collection": "<collection>",
  "controller": "document",
  "action": "update",
  "requestId": "<unique request identifier>",
  "result": {
    "_id": "<documentId>",
    "_version": 2,
    "_source": "<partial or entire document>"
  }
}