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Bulk Indexingedit

Elasticsearch also supports bulk indexing of documents. The bulk API expects JSON action/metadata pairs, separated by newlines. When constructing your documents in PHP, the process is similar. You first create an action array object (e.g. index object), then you create a document body object. This process repeats for all your documents.

A simple example might look like this:

Bulk indexing with PHP arrays.

for($i = 0; $i < 100; $i++) {
    $params['body'][] = [
        'index' => [
            '_index' => 'my_index',
            '_type' => 'my_type',
	]
    ];

    $params['body'][] = [
        'my_field' => 'my_value',
        'second_field' => 'some more values'
    ];
}

$responses = $client->bulk($params);

In practice, you’ll likely have more documents than you want to send in a single bulk request. In that case, you need to batch up the requests and periodically send them:

Bulk indexing with batches.

$params = ['body' => []];

for ($i = 1; $i <= 1234567; $i++) {
    $params['body'][] = [
        'index' => [
            '_index' => 'my_index',
            '_type' => 'my_type',
            '_id' => $i
        ]
    ];

    $params['body'][] = [
        'my_field' => 'my_value',
        'second_field' => 'some more values'
    ];

    // Every 1000 documents stop and send the bulk request
    if ($i % 1000 == 0) {
        $responses = $client->bulk($params);

        // erase the old bulk request
        $params = ['body' => []];

        // unset the bulk response when you are done to save memory
        unset($responses);
    }
}

// Send the last batch if it exists
if (!empty($params['body'])) {
    $responses = $client->bulk($params);
}
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