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how to use python Elasticsearch client upsert api

I'm using Elasticsearch python client as http://elasticsearch-py.readthedocs.org/ I tried hard but still could not find the update api with upsert. Could anyone give me an example with ES python client upsert api please.

Solution

  • The example code is following.

    from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch
es = Elasticsearch("localhost:9200")
es.update(
    index="test",
    doc_type="test1",
    id="1",
    body={
        "doc": {"username": "Tom"}, 
        "doc_as_upsert": True
    }
)

    If body is without doc_as_upsert=true the code would throw an exception when the id is not existing. Additionally, make sure your data were wrapped in doc.