Lucene 4 Cookbook

Updating a document

The updated API allows you to add/update fields in a document. The action can be triggered by using the HTTP PUT or POST method. A document can be specified by their ids (_id field).

How to do it…

Let's assume that we have an existing document in our news article index, in which id is 1 and title is "Europe stocks tumble on political fears, PMI data". We will submit an update action to update title to "Europe stocks tumble on political fears, PMI data | STOCK NEWS".

Here is a PUT method example:

curl -XPUT 'http://localhost:9200/news/article/1' -d '
{
    "title" : "Europe stocks tumble on political fears, PMI data | STOCK NEWS"
}'

If successful, it should return the following:

{"_index":"news","_type":"article","_id":"1","_version":2,"created":false} ...