elasticsearch/docs/java-rest/high-level/document/index.asciidoc

[[java-rest-high-document-index]]
=== Index API

[[java-rest-high-document-index-request]]
==== Index Request

An `IndexRequest` requires the following arguments:

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<1> Index
<2> Type
<3> Document id
<4> Document source provided as a `String`

==== Providing the document source
The document source can be provided in different ways in addition to the
`String` example shown above:

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<1> Document source provided as a `Map` which gets automatically converted
to JSON format

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<1> Document source provided as an `XContentBuilder` object, the Elasticsearch
built-in helpers to generate JSON content

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<1> Document source provided as `Object` key-pairs, which gets converted to
JSON format

==== Optional arguments
The following arguments can optionally be provided:

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<1> Routing value

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<1> Parent value

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<1> Timeout to wait for primary shard to become available as a `TimeValue`
<2> Timeout to wait for primary shard to become available as a `String`

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<1> Refresh policy as a `WriteRequest.RefreshPolicy` instance
<2> Refresh policy as a `String`

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<1> Version

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<1> Version type

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<1> Operation type provided as an `DocWriteRequest.OpType` value
<2> Operation type provided as a `String`: can be `create` or `update` (default)

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<1> The name of the ingest pipeline to be executed before indexing the document

[[java-rest-high-document-index-sync]]
==== Synchronous Execution

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[[java-rest-high-document-index-async]]
==== Asynchronous Execution

The asynchronous execution of an index request requires both the `IndexRequest`
instance and an `ActionListener` instance to be passed to the asynchronous
method:

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<1> The `IndexRequest` to execute and the `ActionListener` to use when
the execution completes

The asynchronous method does not block and returns immediately. Once it is
completed the `ActionListener` is called back using the `onResponse` method
if the execution successfully completed or using the `onFailure` method if
it failed.

A typical listener for `IndexResponse` looks like:

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<1> Called when the execution is successfully completed. The response is
provided as an argument
<2> Called in case of failure. The raised exception is provided as an argument

[[java-rest-high-document-index-response]]
==== Index Response

The returned `IndexResponse` allows to retrieve information about the executed
 operation as follows:

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<1> Handle (if needed) the case where the document was created for the first
time
<2> Handle (if needed) the case where the document was rewritten as it was
already existing
<3> Handle the situation where number of successful shards is less than
total shards
<4> Handle the potential failures

If there is a version conflict, an `ElasticsearchException` will
be thrown:

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<1> The raised exception indicates that a version conflict error was returned

Same will happen in case `opType` was set to `create` and a document with
same index, type and id already existed:

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<1> The raised exception indicates that a version conflict error was returned