January 2016
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
4h 42m
English
Until now, you have seen the execution of a single get request to fetch a document and hit a single query at a time to search for documents. However, life will be easier with the following two APIs offered by Elasticsearch.
Multi get is all about combining more than one get request in a single request. I remember once I had a requirement to check the existence of multiple documents in an index and create a bulk update request against only those IDs that did not already exist. The one way to do this was by hitting a single HEAD request for each document ID, and based on the response of Elasticsearch, create a bulk update request for the documents that did not exist. However, multi get requests can solve this ...
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