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Multi Get API

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Multi Get API

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Multi GET API allows to get multiple documents based on an index, type (optional) and id (and possibly routing). The response includes a docs array with all the fetched documents, each element similar in structure to a document provided by the get API. Here is an example:

curl 'localhost:9200/_mget' -d '{
    "docs" : [
        {
            "_index" : "test",
            "_type" : "type",
            "_id" : "1"
        },
        {
            "_index" : "test",
            "_type" : "type",
            "_id" : "2"
        }
    ]
}'

The mget endpoint can also be used against an index (in which case it is not required in the body):

curl 'localhost:9200/test/_mget' -d '{
    "docs" : [
        {
            "_type" : "type",
            "_id" : "1"
        },
        {
            "_type" : "type",
            "_id" : "2"
        }
    ]
}'

And type:

curl 'localhost:9200/test/type/_mget' -d '{
    "docs" : [
        {
            "_id" : "1"
        },
        {
            "_id" : "2"
        }
    ]
}'

In which case, the ids element can directly be used to simplify the request:

curl 'localhost:9200/test/type/_mget' -d '{
    "ids" : ["1", "2"]
}'

Optional Type

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The mget API allows for _type to be optional. Set it to _all or leave it empty in order to fetch the first document matching the id across all types.

If you don’t set the type and have many documents sharing the same _id, you will end up getting only the first matching document.

For example, if you have a document 1 within typeA and typeB then following request will give you back only the same document twice:

curl 'localhost:9200/test/_mget' -d '{
    "ids" : ["1", "1"]
}'

You need in that case to explicitly set the _type:

GET /test/_mget/
{
  "docs" : [
        {
            "_type":"typeA",
            "_id" : "1"
        },
        {
            "_type":"typeB",
            "_id" : "1"
        }
    ]
}

Source filtering

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By default, the _source field will be returned for every document (if stored). Similar to the get API, you can retrieve only parts of the _source (or not at all) by using the _source parameter. You can also use the url parameters _source,_source_include & _source_exclude to specify defaults, which will be used when there are no per-document instructions.

For example:

curl 'localhost:9200/_mget' -d '{
    "docs" : [
        {
            "_index" : "test",
            "_type" : "type",
            "_id" : "1",
            "_source" : false
        },
        {
            "_index" : "test",
            "_type" : "type",
            "_id" : "2",
            "_source" : ["field3", "field4"]
        },
        {
            "_index" : "test",
            "_type" : "type",
            "_id" : "3",
            "_source" : {
                "include": ["user"],
                "exclude": ["user.location"]
            }
        }
    ]
}'

Fields

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Specific stored fields can be specified to be retrieved per document to get, similar to the fields parameter of the Get API. For example:

curl 'localhost:9200/_mget' -d '{
    "docs" : [
        {
            "_index" : "test",
            "_type" : "type",
            "_id" : "1",
            "fields" : ["field1", "field2"]
        },
        {
            "_index" : "test",
            "_type" : "type",
            "_id" : "2",
            "fields" : ["field3", "field4"]
        }
    ]
}'

Alternatively, you can specify the fields parameter in the query string as a default to be applied to all documents.

curl 'localhost:9200/test/type/_mget?fields=field1,field2' -d '{
    "docs" : [
        {
            "_id" : "1" 
        },
        {
            "_id" : "2",
            "fields" : ["field3", "field4"] 
        }
    ]
}'

Returns field1 and field2

Returns field3 and field4

Generated fields

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See Generated fields for fields are generated only when indexing.

Routing

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You can also specify routing value as a parameter:

curl 'localhost:9200/_mget?routing=key1' -d '{
    "docs" : [
        {
            "_index" : "test",
            "_type" : "type",
            "_id" : "1",
            "_routing" : "key2"
        },
        {
            "_index" : "test",
            "_type" : "type",
            "_id" : "2"
        }
    ]
}'

In this example, document test/type/2 will be fetch from shard corresponding to routing key key1 but document test/type/1 will be fetch from shard corresponding to routing key key2.

Security

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See URL-based access control

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