[FIXED] Elastica add documents overrides existing ones

Issue

When i try to add new documents to an index type , i loose existing documents which are overwritten by the new added ones . The problem can be related to the id of each added document ??

Here is the code :

     $elasticaClient = new \Elastica\Client(array(
                'host' => $this->container->getParameter('elastic_host'),
                'port' => $this->container->getParameter('elastic_port')
            ));
     $elasticaIndex = $elasticaClient->getIndex('app');
           $elasticaIndex->create(
            array(
                'number_of_shards' => 4,
                'number_of_replicas' => 1,
                'analysis' => array(
                    'analyzer' => array(
                        'indexAnalyzer' => array(
                            'type' => 'custom',
                            'tokenizer' => 'standard',
                            'filter' => array('lowercase', 'mySnowball')
                        ),
                        'searchAnalyzer' => array(
                            'type' => 'custom',
                            'tokenizer' => 'standard',
                            'filter' => array('standard', 'lowercase',    'mySnowball')
                        )
                    ),
                    'filter' => array(
                        'mySnowball' => array(
                            'type' => 'snowball',
                            'language' => 'German'
                        )
                    )
                )
            ),
            true
        );
     $elasticaType = $elasticaIndex->getType('type');
      $mapping = new \Elastica\Type\Mapping();
      $mapping->setType($elasticaType);
      $mapping->setParam('index_analyzer', 'indexAnalyzer');
      $mapping->setParam('search_analyzer', 'searchAnalyzer');
      $mapping->setProperties(array(
            'id'      => array('type' => 'string'),
            'title'     => array('type' => 'string'),
            'duration'     => array('type' => 'string'),
            'start'     => array('type' => 'string'),
            'end'     => array('type' => 'string'),
        ));

        // Send mapping to type
        $mapping->send();

    $documents = array(); 
            foreach($medias as $media) { 
                $id = uniqid() ;
                $documents[] = new \Elastica\Document(
                    $id,
                    array(
                    'id'       => $id,
                    'title'    => $media['title'],
                    'duration' => $media['duration'],
                    'start'    => $media['start'],
                    'end'      => $media['end'],

                    )
                );
            }

 $elasticaType->addDocuments($documents);
 $elasticaType->getIndex()->refresh();

Please i need your help . Thank you

Solution

PHP does not recommend using uniqid for this use case. Since you are wanting a random, safe id, let Elasticsearch do it for you. The Elastica Document construct method notes that the id field is optional. So don't pass it and let Elasticsearch issue the id.

Answered By - hubbardr