Elastic Search Partial Update with Hibernate Search

miguel.ruiz · **Joined:** Fri Sep 22, 2017 7:08 pm **Posts:** 1

I'm trying to execute partial updates in Elastic Search using Hibernate Search. I have checked the requests to Elastic Search created by Hibernate Search and they update the whole document.

I need this requirement because my documents contain a field with the contents of a file, this field is only filled in the creation of the document and it never changes. Extracting the content of the file is quite expensive because requires some decryption and processing by Apache Tika. On the other hand, the other fields change very often.

Code:

Attachment (class) 
    Name (field)  
    Content (field) - it never changes and expensive to extract        
    Folder (field) - it changes very often
    Status (field) - it changes very often

Is it possible to execute Elastic Search partial updates with Hibernate Search or there is any other way of solving this problem? Thanks in advance.

sanne.grinovero · **Posted:** Mon Oct 02, 2017 2:16 pm

Hi Miguel,

sorry no the partial updates feature of Elaticsearch is not supported yet. We plan to have this in Hibernate Search 6, but it's going to take a while as this requires some significant changes in how all input data is processed.

sorry :)

yrodiere · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2017 2:51 am **Posts:** 3

Hi Miguel,

Yes, as I commented on Stackoverflow, there is no way to do this right now.

If you wish to watch progress on this topic, here is the ticket: https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HSEARCH-2888