Re: Does ElasticsearchIO in the latest RC support adding document IDs?

[Chet Aldrich]

Sure, I’d be happy to take it on. My JIRA ID is chetaldrich. We can continue 
discussion on that ticket. 

Chet

> On Nov 16, 2017, at 7:57 AM, Etienne Chauchot  wrote:
> 
> Chet, 
> FYI, here is the ticket and the design proposal: 
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-3201 
> . If you still want to code 
> that improvement, give me your jira id and I will assign the ticket to you. 
> Otherwise I can code it as well.
> 
> Best
> 
> Etienne
> 
> Le 16/11/2017 à 09:19, Etienne Chauchot a écrit :
>> Hi, 
>> Thanks for the offer, I'd be happy to review your PR. Just wait a bit until 
>> I have opened a proper ticket for that. I still need to think more about the 
>> design. Among other things, I have to check what ES dev team did for other 
>> big data ES IO (es_hadoop) on that particular point. Besides, I think we 
>> also need to deal with the id at read time not only at write time. I'll give 
>> some details in the ticket.
>> 
>> Le 15/11/2017 à 20:08, Chet Aldrich a écrit :
>>> Given that this seems like a change that should probably happen, and I’d 
>>> like to help contribute if possible, a few questions and my current 
>>> opinion: 
>>> 
>>> So I’m leaning towards approach B here, which is:
 b. (a bit less user friendly) PCollection with K as an id. But forces 
 the user to do a Pardo before writing to ES to output KV pairs of >>> json>
 
>>> I think that the reduction in user-friendliness may be outweighed by the 
>>> fact that this obviates some of the issues surrounding a failure when 
>>> finishing a bundle. Additionally, this forces the user to provide a 
>>> document id, which I think is probably better practice.
>>> 
>> Yes as I wrote before, I think it is better to force the user to provide an 
>> id (at least for index updates, exactly-one semantics is a larger beam 
>> subject than this IO scope). Regarding design, plan b is not the better one 
>> IMHO because it changes the IO public API. I'm more in favor of plan a with 
>> the ability for the user to tell what field is his doc id.
>>> This will also probably lead to fewer frustrations around “magic” code that 
>>> just pulls something in if it happens to be there, and doesn’t if not. 
>>> We’ll need to rely on the user catching this functionality in the docs or 
>>> the code itself to take advantage of it. 
>>> 
>>> IMHO it’d be generally better to enforce this at compile time because it 
>>> does have an effect on whether the pipeline produces duplicates on failure. 
>>> Additionally, we get the benefit of relatively intuitive behavior where if 
>>> the user passes in the same Key value, it’ll update a record in ES, and if 
>>> the key is different then it will create a new record. 
>> Totally agree, id enforcement at compile time, no auto-generation
>>> 
>>> Curious to hear thoughts on this. If this seems reasonable I’ll go ahead 
>>> and create a JIRA for tracking and start working on a PR for this. Also, if 
>>> it’d be good to loop in the dev mailing list before starting let me know, 
>>> I’m pretty new to this. 
>> I'll create the ticket and we will loop on design in the comments.
>> Best
>> Etienne
>>> 
>>> Chet 
>>> 
 On Nov 15, 2017, at 12:53 AM, Etienne Chauchot >>> > wrote:
 
 Hi Chet,
 
 What you say is totally true, docs written using ElasticSearchIO will 
 always have an ES generated id. But it might change in the future, indeed 
 it might be a good thing to allow the user to pass an id. Just in 5 
 seconds thinking, I see 3 possible designs for that. 
 a.(simplest) use a json special field for the id, if it is provided by the 
 user in the input json then it is used, auto-generated id otherwise.
 
 b. (a bit less user friendly) PCollection with K as an id. But forces 
 the user to do a Pardo before writing to ES to output KV pairs of >>> json>
 
 c. (a lot more complex) Allow the IO to serialize/deserialize java beans 
 and have an String id field. Matching java types to ES types is quite 
 tricky, so, for now we just relied on the user to serialize his beans into 
 json and let ES match the types automatically.
 
 Related to the problems you raise bellow:
 
 1. Well, the bundle is the commit entity of beam. Consider the case of 
 ESIO.batchSize being < to bundle size. While processing records, when the 
 number of elements reaches batchSize, an ES bulk insert will be issued but 
 no finishBundle. If there is a problem later on in the bundle processing 
 before the finishBundle, the checkpoint will still be at the beginning of 
 the bundle, so all the bundle will be retried leading to duplicate 
 documents. Thanks for raising that! I'm CCing the dev list so that someone 
 could correct me on the checkpointing mecanism if I'm missing something. 
 Besides I'm thinking about forcing the user to provide an id in all

Re: Does ElasticsearchIO in the latest RC support adding document IDs?

[Etienne Chauchot]

Chet,

FYI, here is the ticket and the design proposal: 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-3201. If you still want to 
code that improvement, give me your jira id and I will assign the ticket 
to you. Otherwise I can code it as well.


Best

Etienne


Le 16/11/2017 à 09:19, Etienne Chauchot a écrit :


Hi,

Thanks for the offer, I'd be happy to review your PR. Just wait a bit 
until I have opened a proper ticket for that. I still need to think 
more about the design. Among other things, I have to check what ES dev 
team did for other big data ES IO (es_hadoop) on that particular 
point. Besides, I think we also need to deal with the id at read time 
not only at write time. I'll give some details in the ticket.



Le 15/11/2017 à 20:08, Chet Aldrich a écrit :
Given that this seems like a change that should probably happen, and 
I’d like to help contribute if possible, a few questions and my 
current opinion:


So I’m leaning towards approach B here, which is:


b. (a bit less user friendly) PCollection with K as an id. But 
forces the user to do a Pardo before writing to ES to output KV 
pairs of 


I think that the reduction in user-friendliness may be outweighed by 
the fact that this obviates some of the issues surrounding a failure 
when finishing a bundle. Additionally, this /forces/ the user to 
provide a document id, which I think is probably better practice.


Yes as I wrote before, I think it is better to force the user to 
provide an id (at least for index updates, exactly-one semantics is a 
larger beam subject than this IO scope). Regarding design, plan b is 
not the better one IMHO because it changes the IO public API. I'm more 
in favor of plan a with the ability for the user to tell what field is 
his doc id.


This will also probably lead to fewer frustrations around “magic” 
code that just pulls something in if it happens to be there, and 
doesn’t if not. We’ll need to rely on the user catching this 
functionality in the docs or the code itself to take advantage of it.


IMHO it’d be generally better to enforce this at compile time because 
it does have an effect on whether the pipeline produces duplicates on 
failure. Additionally, we get the benefit of relatively intuitive 
behavior where if the user passes in the same Key value, it’ll update 
a record in ES, and if the key is different then it will create a new 
record.

Totally agree, id enforcement at compile time, no auto-generation


Curious to hear thoughts on this. If this seems reasonable I’ll go 
ahead and create a JIRA for tracking and start working on a PR for 
this. Also, if it’d be good to loop in the dev mailing list before 
starting let me know, I’m pretty new to this.

I'll create the ticket and we will loop on design in the comments.
Best
Etienne


Chet

On Nov 15, 2017, at 12:53 AM, Etienne Chauchot > wrote:


Hi Chet,

What you say is totally true, docs written using ElasticSearchIO 
will always have an ES generated id. But it might change in the 
future, indeed it might be a good thing to allow the user to pass an 
id. Just in 5 seconds thinking, I see 3 possible designs for that.


a.(simplest) use a json special field for the id, if it is provided 
by the user in the input json then it is used, auto-generated id 
otherwise.


b. (a bit less user friendly) PCollection with K as an id. But 
forces the user to do a Pardo before writing to ES to output KV 
pairs of 


c. (a lot more complex) Allow the IO to serialize/deserialize java 
beans and have an String id field. Matching java types to ES types 
is quite tricky, so, for now we just relied on the user to serialize 
his beans into json and let ES match the types automatically.


Related to the problems you raise bellow:

1. Well, the bundle is the commit entity of beam. Consider the case 
of ESIO.batchSize being < to bundle size. While processing records, 
when the number of elements reaches batchSize, an ES bulk insert 
will be issued but no finishBundle. If there is a problem later on 
in the bundle processing before the finishBundle, the checkpoint 
will still be at the beginning of the bundle, so all the bundle will 
be retried leading to duplicate documents. Thanks for raising that! 
I'm CCing the dev list so that someone could correct me on the 
checkpointing mecanism if I'm missing something. Besides I'm 
thinking about forcing the user to provide an id in all cases to 
workaround this issue.


2. Correct.

Best,
Etienne

Le 15/11/2017 à 02:16, Chet Aldrich a écrit :

Hello all!

So I’ve been using the ElasticSearchIO sink for a project 
(unfortunately it’s Elasticsearch 5.x, and so I’ve been messing 
around with the latest RC) and I’m finding that it doesn’t allow 
for changing the document ID, but only lets you pass in a record, 
which means that the document ID is auto-generated. See this line 
for what specifically is happening:


https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/java/io/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/

Re: Does ElasticsearchIO in the latest RC support adding document IDs?

[NerdyNick]

I'd add to the idea here with the A solution. What about also supporting a
user function to provide the ID given the record. I say this because I'm
starting to also look into how to get the ESIO writer to support dynamic
index based on information contained within the event. For which just
looking at a field would be very pollute when it comes to having fields in
ES just to support the writer.

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 1:33 AM, Jean-Baptiste Onofré 
wrote:

> I think it's the most elegant approach: the user should be able to decide
> the id field he wants to use.
>
> Regards
> JB
>
> On 11/16/2017 09:24 AM, Etienne Chauchot wrote:
>
>> +1, that is what I had in mind, if I recall correctly this is what
>> es_hadoop connector does.
>>
>>
>> Le 15/11/2017 à 20:22, Tim Robertson a écrit :
>>
>>> Hi Chet,
>>>
>>> I'll be a user of this, so thank you.
>>>
>>> It seems reasonable although - did you consider letting folk name the
>>> document ID field explicitly?  It would avoid an unnecessary transformation
>>> and might be simpler:
>>>// instruct the writer to use a provided document ID
>>>ElasticsearchIO.write().withConnectionConfiguration(conn).
>>> withMaxBatchSize(BATCH_SIZE).withDocumentIdField("myID");
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 8:08 PM, Chet Aldrich <
>>> chet.aldr...@postmates.com > wrote:
>>>
>>> Given that this seems like a change that should probably happen, and
>>> I’d
>>> like to help contribute if possible, a few questions and my current
>>> opinion:
>>>
>>> So I’m leaning towards approach B here, which is:
>>>

 b. (a bit less user friendly) PCollection with K as an id. But
 forces
 the user to do a Pardo before writing to ES to output KV pairs of
 

 I think that the reduction in user-friendliness may be outweighed
>>> by the
>>> fact that this obviates some of the issues surrounding a failure when
>>> finishing a bundle. Additionally, this /forces/ the user to provide a
>>> document id, which I think is probably better practice. This will
>>> also
>>> probably lead to fewer frustrations around “magic” code that just
>>> pulls
>>> something in if it happens to be there, and doesn’t if not. We’ll
>>> need to
>>> rely on the user catching this functionality in the docs or the code
>>> itself to take advantage of it.
>>>
>>> IMHO it’d be generally better to enforce this at compile time
>>> because it
>>> does have an effect on whether the pipeline produces duplicates on
>>> failure. Additionally, we get the benefit of relatively intuitive
>>> behavior
>>> where if the user passes in the same Key value, it’ll update a
>>> record in
>>> ES, and if the key is different then it will create a new record.
>>>
>>> Curious to hear thoughts on this. If this seems reasonable I’ll go
>>> ahead
>>> and create a JIRA for tracking and start working on a PR for this.
>>> Also,
>>> if it’d be good to loop in the dev mailing list before starting let
>>> me
>>> know, I’m pretty new to this.
>>>
>>> Chet
>>>
>>> On Nov 15, 2017, at 12:53 AM, Etienne Chauchot >>> > wrote:

 Hi Chet,

 What you say is totally true, docs written using ElasticSearchIO
 will
 always have an ES generated id. But it might change in the future,
 indeed
 it might be a good thing to allow the user to pass an id. Just in 5
 seconds thinking, I see 3 possible designs for that.

 a.(simplest) use a json special field for the id, if it is provided
 by
 the user in the input json then it is used, auto-generated id
 otherwise.

 b. (a bit less user friendly) PCollection with K as an id. But
 forces
 the user to do a Pardo before writing to ES to output KV pairs of
 

 c. (a lot more complex) Allow the IO to serialize/deserialize java
 beans
 and have an String id field. Matching java types to ES types is
 quite
 tricky, so, for now we just relied on the user to serialize his
 beans
 into json and let ES match the types automatically.

 Related to the problems you raise bellow:

 1. Well, the bundle is the commit entity of beam. Consider the case
 of
 ESIO.batchSize being < to bundle size. While processing records,
 when the
 number of elements reaches batchSize, an ES bulk insert will be
 issued
 but no finishBundle. If there is a problem later on in the bundle
 processing before the finishBundle, the checkpoint will still be at
 the
 beginning of the bundle, so all the bundle will be retried leading
 to
 duplicate documents. Thanks for raising that! I'm CCing the dev
 list so
 that someone could correct me on the checkpointing mecanism if I'm
 missing something. Besides I'm thinking

Re: Does ElasticsearchIO in the latest RC support adding document IDs?

[Jean-Baptiste Onofré]

I think it's the most elegant approach: the user should be able to decide the id 
field he wants to use.


Regards
JB

On 11/16/2017 09:24 AM, Etienne Chauchot wrote:
+1, that is what I had in mind, if I recall correctly this is what es_hadoop 
connector does.



Le 15/11/2017 à 20:22, Tim Robertson a écrit :

Hi Chet,

I'll be a user of this, so thank you.

It seems reasonable although - did you consider letting folk name the document 
ID field explicitly?  It would avoid an unnecessary transformation and might 
be simpler:

   // instruct the writer to use a provided document ID
   
ElasticsearchIO.write().withConnectionConfiguration(conn).withMaxBatchSize(BATCH_SIZE).withDocumentIdField("myID");

On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 8:08 PM, Chet Aldrich > wrote:


Given that this seems like a change that should probably happen, and I’d
like to help contribute if possible, a few questions and my current opinion:

So I’m leaning towards approach B here, which is:


b. (a bit less user friendly) PCollection with K as an id. But forces
the user to do a Pardo before writing to ES to output KV pairs of 


I think that the reduction in user-friendliness may be outweighed by the
fact that this obviates some of the issues surrounding a failure when
finishing a bundle. Additionally, this /forces/ the user to provide a
document id, which I think is probably better practice. This will also
probably lead to fewer frustrations around “magic” code that just pulls
something in if it happens to be there, and doesn’t if not. We’ll need to
rely on the user catching this functionality in the docs or the code
itself to take advantage of it.

IMHO it’d be generally better to enforce this at compile time because it
does have an effect on whether the pipeline produces duplicates on
failure. Additionally, we get the benefit of relatively intuitive behavior
where if the user passes in the same Key value, it’ll update a record in
ES, and if the key is different then it will create a new record.

Curious to hear thoughts on this. If this seems reasonable I’ll go ahead
and create a JIRA for tracking and start working on a PR for this. Also,
if it’d be good to loop in the dev mailing list before starting let me
know, I’m pretty new to this.

Chet


On Nov 15, 2017, at 12:53 AM, Etienne Chauchot mailto:echauc...@apache.org>> wrote:

Hi Chet,

What you say is totally true, docs written using ElasticSearchIO will
always have an ES generated id. But it might change in the future, indeed
it might be a good thing to allow the user to pass an id. Just in 5
seconds thinking, I see 3 possible designs for that.

a.(simplest) use a json special field for the id, if it is provided by
the user in the input json then it is used, auto-generated id otherwise.

b. (a bit less user friendly) PCollection with K as an id. But forces
the user to do a Pardo before writing to ES to output KV pairs of 

c. (a lot more complex) Allow the IO to serialize/deserialize java beans
and have an String id field. Matching java types to ES types is quite
tricky, so, for now we just relied on the user to serialize his beans
into json and let ES match the types automatically.

Related to the problems you raise bellow:

1. Well, the bundle is the commit entity of beam. Consider the case of
ESIO.batchSize being < to bundle size. While processing records, when the
number of elements reaches batchSize, an ES bulk insert will be issued
but no finishBundle. If there is a problem later on in the bundle
processing before the finishBundle, the checkpoint will still be at the
beginning of the bundle, so all the bundle will be retried leading to
duplicate documents. Thanks for raising that! I'm CCing the dev list so
that someone could correct me on the checkpointing mecanism if I'm
missing something. Besides I'm thinking about forcing the user to provide
an id in all cases to workaround this issue.

2. Correct.

Best,
Etienne

Le 15/11/2017 à 02:16, Chet Aldrich a écrit :

Hello all!

So I’ve been using the ElasticSearchIO sink for a project (unfortunately
it’s Elasticsearch 5.x, and so I’ve been messing around with the latest
RC) and I’m finding that it doesn’t allow for changing the document ID,
but only lets you pass in a record, which means that the document ID is
auto-generated. See this line for what specifically is happening:


https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/java/io/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/elasticsearch/ElasticsearchIO.java#L838



Essentially the data part of the document is being placed but it doesn’t
allow for other

Re: Does ElasticsearchIO in the latest RC support adding document IDs?

[Etienne Chauchot]

+1, that is what I had in mind, if I recall correctly this is what 
es_hadoop connector does.



Le 15/11/2017 à 20:22, Tim Robertson a écrit :

Hi Chet,

I'll be a user of this, so thank you.

It seems reasonable although - did you consider letting folk name the 
document ID field explicitly?  It would avoid an unnecessary 
transformation and might be simpler:

   // instruct the writer to use a provided document ID
   
ElasticsearchIO.write().withConnectionConfiguration(conn).withMaxBatchSize(BATCH_SIZE).withDocumentIdField("myID");

On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 8:08 PM, Chet Aldrich 
mailto:chet.aldr...@postmates.com>> wrote:


Given that this seems like a change that should probably happen,
and I’d like to help contribute if possible, a few questions and
my current opinion:

So I’m leaning towards approach B here, which is:


b. (a bit less user friendly) PCollection with K as an id.
But forces the user to do a Pardo before writing to ES to output
KV pairs of 


I think that the reduction in user-friendliness may be outweighed
by the fact that this obviates some of the issues surrounding a
failure when finishing a bundle. Additionally, this /forces/ the
user to provide a document id, which I think is probably better
practice. This will also probably lead to fewer frustrations
around “magic” code that just pulls something in if it happens to
be there, and doesn’t if not. We’ll need to rely on the user
catching this functionality in the docs or the code itself to take
advantage of it.

IMHO it’d be generally better to enforce this at compile time
because it does have an effect on whether the pipeline produces
duplicates on failure. Additionally, we get the benefit of
relatively intuitive behavior where if the user passes in the same
Key value, it’ll update a record in ES, and if the key is
different then it will create a new record.

Curious to hear thoughts on this. If this seems reasonable I’ll go
ahead and create a JIRA for tracking and start working on a PR for
this. Also, if it’d be good to loop in the dev mailing list before
starting let me know, I’m pretty new to this.

Chet


On Nov 15, 2017, at 12:53 AM, Etienne Chauchot
mailto:echauc...@apache.org>> wrote:

Hi Chet,

What you say is totally true, docs written using ElasticSearchIO
will always have an ES generated id. But it might change in the
future, indeed it might be a good thing to allow the user to pass
an id. Just in 5 seconds thinking, I see 3 possible designs for
that.

a.(simplest) use a json special field for the id, if it is
provided by the user in the input json then it is used,
auto-generated id otherwise.

b. (a bit less user friendly) PCollection with K as an id.
But forces the user to do a Pardo before writing to ES to output
KV pairs of 

c. (a lot more complex) Allow the IO to serialize/deserialize
java beans and have an String id field. Matching java types to ES
types is quite tricky, so, for now we just relied on the user to
serialize his beans into json and let ES match the types
automatically.

Related to the problems you raise bellow:

1. Well, the bundle is the commit entity of beam. Consider the
case of ESIO.batchSize being < to bundle size. While processing
records, when the number of elements reaches batchSize, an ES
bulk insert will be issued but no finishBundle. If there is a
problem later on in the bundle processing before the
finishBundle, the checkpoint will still be at the beginning of
the bundle, so all the bundle will be retried leading to
duplicate documents. Thanks for raising that! I'm CCing the dev
list so that someone could correct me on the checkpointing
mecanism if I'm missing something. Besides I'm thinking about
forcing the user to provide an id in all cases to workaround this
issue.

2. Correct.

Best,
Etienne

Le 15/11/2017 à 02:16, Chet Aldrich a écrit :

Hello all!

So I’ve been using the ElasticSearchIO sink for a project
(unfortunately it’s Elasticsearch 5.x, and so I’ve been messing
around with the latest RC) and I’m finding that it doesn’t allow
for changing the document ID, but only lets you pass in a
record, which means that the document ID is auto-generated. See
this line for what specifically is happening:


https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/java/io/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/elasticsearch/ElasticsearchIO.java#L838



Essentially the data part of the document is being placed but it
doesn’t allow for other properties, such as the document ID, to
be set.

This leads to two problems:

1. Beam doesn’t necessarily 

Re: Does ElasticsearchIO in the latest RC support adding document IDs?

[Etienne Chauchot]

Hi,

Thanks for the offer, I'd be happy to review your PR. Just wait a bit 
until I have opened a proper ticket for that. I still need to think more 
about the design. Among other things, I have to check what ES dev team 
did for other big data ES IO (es_hadoop) on that particular point. 
Besides, I think we also need to deal with the id at read time not only 
at write time. I'll give some details in the ticket.



Le 15/11/2017 à 20:08, Chet Aldrich a écrit :
Given that this seems like a change that should probably happen, and 
I’d like to help contribute if possible, a few questions and my 
current opinion:


So I’m leaning towards approach B here, which is:


b. (a bit less user friendly) PCollection with K as an id. But 
forces the user to do a Pardo before writing to ES to output KV pairs 
of 


I think that the reduction in user-friendliness may be outweighed by 
the fact that this obviates some of the issues surrounding a failure 
when finishing a bundle. Additionally, this /forces/ the user to 
provide a document id, which I think is probably better practice.


Yes as I wrote before, I think it is better to force the user to provide 
an id (at least for index updates, exactly-one semantics is a larger 
beam subject than this IO scope). Regarding design, plan b is not the 
better one IMHO because it changes the IO public API. I'm more in favor 
of plan a with the ability for the user to tell what field is his doc id.


This will also probably lead to fewer frustrations around “magic” code 
that just pulls something in if it happens to be there, and doesn’t if 
not. We’ll need to rely on the user catching this functionality in the 
docs or the code itself to take advantage of it.


IMHO it’d be generally better to enforce this at compile time because 
it does have an effect on whether the pipeline produces duplicates on 
failure. Additionally, we get the benefit of relatively intuitive 
behavior where if the user passes in the same Key value, it’ll update 
a record in ES, and if the key is different then it will create a new 
record.

Totally agree, id enforcement at compile time, no auto-generation


Curious to hear thoughts on this. If this seems reasonable I’ll go 
ahead and create a JIRA for tracking and start working on a PR for 
this. Also, if it’d be good to loop in the dev mailing list before 
starting let me know, I’m pretty new to this.

I'll create the ticket and we will loop on design in the comments.
Best
Etienne


Chet

On Nov 15, 2017, at 12:53 AM, Etienne Chauchot > wrote:


Hi Chet,

What you say is totally true, docs written using ElasticSearchIO will 
always have an ES generated id. But it might change in the future, 
indeed it might be a good thing to allow the user to pass an id. Just 
in 5 seconds thinking, I see 3 possible designs for that.


a.(simplest) use a json special field for the id, if it is provided 
by the user in the input json then it is used, auto-generated id 
otherwise.


b. (a bit less user friendly) PCollection with K as an id. But 
forces the user to do a Pardo before writing to ES to output KV pairs 
of 


c. (a lot more complex) Allow the IO to serialize/deserialize java 
beans and have an String id field. Matching java types to ES types is 
quite tricky, so, for now we just relied on the user to serialize his 
beans into json and let ES match the types automatically.


Related to the problems you raise bellow:

1. Well, the bundle is the commit entity of beam. Consider the case 
of ESIO.batchSize being < to bundle size. While processing records, 
when the number of elements reaches batchSize, an ES bulk insert will 
be issued but no finishBundle. If there is a problem later on in the 
bundle processing before the finishBundle, the checkpoint will still 
be at the beginning of the bundle, so all the bundle will be retried 
leading to duplicate documents. Thanks for raising that! I'm CCing 
the dev list so that someone could correct me on the checkpointing 
mecanism if I'm missing something. Besides I'm thinking about forcing 
the user to provide an id in all cases to workaround this issue.


2. Correct.

Best,
Etienne

Le 15/11/2017 à 02:16, Chet Aldrich a écrit :

Hello all!

So I’ve been using the ElasticSearchIO sink for a project 
(unfortunately it’s Elasticsearch 5.x, and so I’ve been messing 
around with the latest RC) and I’m finding that it doesn’t allow for 
changing the document ID, but only lets you pass in a record, which 
means that the document ID is auto-generated. See this line for what 
specifically is happening:


https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/java/io/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/elasticsearch/ElasticsearchIO.java#L838

Essentially the data part of the document is being placed but it 
doesn’t allow for other properties, such as the document ID, to be set.


This leads to two problems:

1. Beam doesn’t necessarily guarantee exactly-once execution for a 
given item in a PC

Re: Does ElasticsearchIO in the latest RC support adding document IDs?

[Tim Robertson]

Hi Chet,

I'll be a user of this, so thank you.

It seems reasonable although - did you consider letting folk name the
document ID field explicitly?  It would avoid an unnecessary transformation
and might be simpler:


  // instruct the writer to use a provided document ID

  
ElasticsearchIO.write().withConnectionConfiguration(conn).withMaxBatchSize(BATCH_SIZE).withDocumentIdField("myID");


On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 8:08 PM, Chet Aldrich 
wrote:

> Given that this seems like a change that should probably happen, and I’d
> like to help contribute if possible, a few questions and my current
> opinion:
>
> So I’m leaning towards approach B here, which is:
>
> b. (a bit less user friendly) PCollection with K as an id. But forces
> the user to do a Pardo before writing to ES to output KV pairs of 
>
> I think that the reduction in user-friendliness may be outweighed by the
> fact that this obviates some of the issues surrounding a failure when
> finishing a bundle. Additionally, this *forces* the user to provide a
> document id, which I think is probably better practice. This will also
> probably lead to fewer frustrations around “magic” code that just pulls
> something in if it happens to be there, and doesn’t if not. We’ll need to
> rely on the user catching this functionality in the docs or the code itself
> to take advantage of it.
> IMHO it’d be generally better to enforce this at compile time because it
> does have an effect on whether the pipeline produces duplicates on failure.
> Additionally, we get the benefit of relatively intuitive behavior where if
> the user passes in the same Key value, it’ll update a record in ES, and if
> the key is different then it will create a new record.
>
> Curious to hear thoughts on this. If this seems reasonable I’ll go ahead
> and create a JIRA for tracking and start working on a PR for this. Also, if
> it’d be good to loop in the dev mailing list before starting let me know,
> I’m pretty new to this.
>
> Chet
>
> On Nov 15, 2017, at 12:53 AM, Etienne Chauchot 
> wrote:
>
> Hi Chet,
>
> What you say is totally true, docs written using ElasticSearchIO will
> always have an ES generated id. But it might change in the future, indeed
> it might be a good thing to allow the user to pass an id. Just in 5 seconds
> thinking, I see 3 possible designs for that.
>
> a.(simplest) use a json special field for the id, if it is provided by the
> user in the input json then it is used, auto-generated id otherwise.
>
> b. (a bit less user friendly) PCollection with K as an id. But forces
> the user to do a Pardo before writing to ES to output KV pairs of 
>
> c. (a lot more complex) Allow the IO to serialize/deserialize java beans
> and have an String id field. Matching java types to ES types is quite
> tricky, so, for now we just relied on the user to serialize his beans into
> json and let ES match the types automatically.
>
> Related to the problems you raise bellow:
>
> 1. Well, the bundle is the commit entity of beam. Consider the case of
> ESIO.batchSize being < to bundle size. While processing records, when the
> number of elements reaches batchSize, an ES bulk insert will be issued but
> no finishBundle. If there is a problem later on in the bundle processing
> before the finishBundle, the checkpoint will still be at the beginning of
> the bundle, so all the bundle will be retried leading to duplicate
> documents. Thanks for raising that! I'm CCing the dev list so that someone
> could correct me on the checkpointing mecanism if I'm missing something.
> Besides I'm thinking about forcing the user to provide an id in all cases
> to workaround this issue.
> 2. Correct.
>
> Best,
> Etienne
>
> Le 15/11/2017 à 02:16, Chet Aldrich a écrit :
>
> Hello all!
>
> So I’ve been using the ElasticSearchIO sink for a project (unfortunately
> it’s Elasticsearch 5.x, and so I’ve been messing around with the latest RC)
> and I’m finding that it doesn’t allow for changing the document ID, but
> only lets you pass in a record, which means that the document ID is
> auto-generated. See this line for what specifically is happening:
>
> https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/java/io/
> elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/
> elasticsearch/ElasticsearchIO.java#L838
>
> Essentially the data part of the document is being placed but it doesn’t
> allow for other properties, such as the document ID, to be set.
>
> This leads to two problems:
>
> 1. Beam doesn’t necessarily guarantee exactly-once execution for a given
> item in a PCollection, as I understand it. This means that you may get more
> than one record in Elastic for a given item in a PCollection that you pass
> in.
>
> 2. You can’t do partial updates to an index. If you run a batch job once,
> and then run the batch job again on the same index without clearing it, you
> just double everything in there.
>
> Is there any good way around this?
>
> I’d be happy to try writing up a PR for this in theory, but not sure how
> to b

Re: Does ElasticsearchIO in the latest RC support adding document IDs?

[Chet Aldrich]

Given that this seems like a change that should probably happen, and I’d like 
to help contribute if possible, a few questions and my current opinion: 

So I’m leaning towards approach B here, which is:
> b. (a bit less user friendly) PCollection with K as an id. But forces the 
> user to do a Pardo before writing to ES to output KV pairs of 
> 
I think that the reduction in user-friendliness may be outweighed by the fact 
that this obviates some of the issues surrounding a failure when finishing a 
bundle. Additionally, this forces the user to provide a document id, which I 
think is probably better practice. This will also probably lead to fewer 
frustrations around “magic” code that just pulls something in if it happens to 
be there, and doesn’t if not. We’ll need to rely on the user catching this 
functionality in the docs or the code itself to take advantage of it. 

IMHO it’d be generally better to enforce this at compile time because it does 
have an effect on whether the pipeline produces duplicates on failure. 
Additionally, we get the benefit of relatively intuitive behavior where if the 
user passes in the same Key value, it’ll update a record in ES, and if the key 
is different then it will create a new record. 

Curious to hear thoughts on this. If this seems reasonable I’ll go ahead and 
create a JIRA for tracking and start working on a PR for this. Also, if it’d be 
good to loop in the dev mailing list before starting let me know, I’m pretty 
new to this. 

Chet 

> On Nov 15, 2017, at 12:53 AM, Etienne Chauchot  > wrote:
> 
> Hi Chet,
> 
> What you say is totally true, docs written using ElasticSearchIO will always 
> have an ES generated id. But it might change in the future, indeed it might 
> be a good thing to allow the user to pass an id. Just in 5 seconds thinking, 
> I see 3 possible designs for that. 
> a.(simplest) use a json special field for the id, if it is provided by the 
> user in the input json then it is used, auto-generated id otherwise.
> 
> b. (a bit less user friendly) PCollection with K as an id. But forces the 
> user to do a Pardo before writing to ES to output KV pairs of 
> 
> c. (a lot more complex) Allow the IO to serialize/deserialize java beans and 
> have an String id field. Matching java types to ES types is quite tricky, so, 
> for now we just relied on the user to serialize his beans into json and let 
> ES match the types automatically.
> 
> Related to the problems you raise bellow:
> 
> 1. Well, the bundle is the commit entity of beam. Consider the case of 
> ESIO.batchSize being < to bundle size. While processing records, when the 
> number of elements reaches batchSize, an ES bulk insert will be issued but no 
> finishBundle. If there is a problem later on in the bundle processing before 
> the finishBundle, the checkpoint will still be at the beginning of the 
> bundle, so all the bundle will be retried leading to duplicate documents. 
> Thanks for raising that! I'm CCing the dev list so that someone could correct 
> me on the checkpointing mecanism if I'm missing something. Besides I'm 
> thinking about forcing the user to provide an id in all cases to workaround 
> this issue.
> 2. Correct.
> 
> Best,
> Etienne
> 
> Le 15/11/2017 à 02:16, Chet Aldrich a écrit :
>> Hello all! 
>> 
>> So I’ve been using the ElasticSearchIO sink for a project (unfortunately 
>> it’s Elasticsearch 5.x, and so I’ve been messing around with the latest RC) 
>> and I’m finding that it doesn’t allow for changing the document ID, but only 
>> lets you pass in a record, which means that the document ID is 
>> auto-generated. See this line for what specifically is happening: 
>> 
>> https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/java/io/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/elasticsearch/ElasticsearchIO.java#L838
>>  
>> 
>>   
>> 
>> Essentially the data part of the document is being placed but it doesn’t 
>> allow for other properties, such as the document ID, to be set. 
>> 
>> This leads to two problems: 
>> 
>> 1. Beam doesn’t necessarily guarantee exactly-once execution for a given 
>> item in a PCollection, as I understand it. This means that you may get more 
>> than one record in Elastic for a given item in a PCollection that you pass 
>> in. 
>> 
>> 2. You can’t do partial updates to an index. If you run a batch job once, 
>> and then run the batch job again on the same index without clearing it, you 
>> just double everything in there. 
>> 
>> Is there any good way around this? 
>> 
>> I’d be happy to try writing up a PR for this in theory, but not sure how to 
>> best approach it. Also would like to figure out a way to get around this in 
>> the meantime, if anyone has any ideas. 
>> 
>> Best, 
>> 
>> Chet
>> 
>> P.S. CCed echauc...@gmail.com  beca

Re: Does ElasticsearchIO in the latest RC support adding document IDs?

[Etienne Chauchot]

Yes, exactly. Actually, it raised from a discussion we had with Romain 
about ESIO.



Le 15/11/2017 à 10:08, Jean-Baptiste Onofré a écrit :
I think it's also related to the discussion Romain raised on the dev 
mailing list (gap between batch size, checkpointing & bundles).


Regards
JB

On 11/15/2017 09:53 AM, Etienne Chauchot wrote:

Hi Chet,

What you say is totally true, docs written using ElasticSearchIO will 
always have an ES generated id. But it might change in the future, 
indeed it might be a good thing to allow the user to pass an id. Just 
in 5 seconds thinking, I see 3 possible designs for that.


a.(simplest) use a json special field for the id, if it is provided 
by the user in the input json then it is used, auto-generated id 
otherwise.


b. (a bit less user friendly) PCollection with K as an id. But 
forces the user to do a Pardo before writing to ES to output KV pairs 
of 


c. (a lot more complex) Allow the IO to serialize/deserialize java 
beans and have an String id field. Matching java types to ES types is 
quite tricky, so, for now we just relied on the user to serialize his 
beans into json and let ES match the types automatically.


Related to the problems you raise bellow:

1. Well, the bundle is the commit entity of beam. Consider the case 
of ESIO.batchSize being < to bundle size. While processing records, 
when the number of elements reaches batchSize, an ES bulk insert will 
be issued but no finishBundle. If there is a problem later on in the 
bundle processing before the finishBundle, the checkpoint will still 
be at the beginning of the bundle, so all the bundle will be retried 
leading to duplicate documents. Thanks for raising that! I'm CCing 
the dev list so that someone could correct me on the checkpointing 
mecanism if I'm missing something. Besides I'm thinking about forcing 
the user to provide an id in all cases to workaround this issue.


2. Correct.

Best,
Etienne

Le 15/11/2017 à 02:16, Chet Aldrich a écrit :

Hello all!

So I’ve been using the ElasticSearchIO sink for a project 
(unfortunately it’s Elasticsearch 5.x, and so I’ve been messing 
around with the latest RC) and I’m finding that it doesn’t allow for 
changing the document ID, but only lets you pass in a record, which 
means that the document ID is auto-generated. See this line for what 
specifically is happening:


https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/java/io/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/elasticsearch/ElasticsearchIO.java#L838 



Essentially the data part of the document is being placed but it 
doesn’t allow for other properties, such as the document ID, to be set.


This leads to two problems:

1. Beam doesn’t necessarily guarantee exactly-once execution for a 
given item in a PCollection, as I understand it. This means that you 
may get more than one record in Elastic for a given item in a 
PCollection that you pass in.


2. You can’t do partial updates to an index. If you run a batch job 
once, and then run the batch job again on the same index without 
clearing it, you just double everything in there.


Is there any good way around this?

I’d be happy to try writing up a PR for this in theory, but not sure 
how to best approach it. Also would like to figure out a way to get 
around this in the meantime, if anyone has any ideas.


Best,

Chet

P.S. CCed echauc...@gmail.com  because 
it seems like he’s been doing work related to the elastic sink.

Re: Does ElasticsearchIO in the latest RC support adding document IDs?

[Tim Robertson]

Hi Chet,

+1 for interest in this from me too.

If it helps, I'd have expected a) to be the implementation (e.g. something
like "_id" being used if present) and handing multiple delivery being a
responsibility of the developer.

Thanks,
Tim




On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 10:08 AM, Jean-Baptiste Onofré 
wrote:

> I think it's also related to the discussion Romain raised on the dev
> mailing list (gap between batch size, checkpointing & bundles).
>
> Regards
> JB
>
> On 11/15/2017 09:53 AM, Etienne Chauchot wrote:
>
>> Hi Chet,
>>
>> What you say is totally true, docs written using ElasticSearchIO will
>> always have an ES generated id. But it might change in the future, indeed
>> it might be a good thing to allow the user to pass an id. Just in 5 seconds
>> thinking, I see 3 possible designs for that.
>>
>> a.(simplest) use a json special field for the id, if it is provided by
>> the user in the input json then it is used, auto-generated id otherwise.
>>
>> b. (a bit less user friendly) PCollection with K as an id. But forces
>> the user to do a Pardo before writing to ES to output KV pairs of 
>>
>> c. (a lot more complex) Allow the IO to serialize/deserialize java beans
>> and have an String id field. Matching java types to ES types is quite
>> tricky, so, for now we just relied on the user to serialize his beans into
>> json and let ES match the types automatically.
>>
>> Related to the problems you raise bellow:
>>
>> 1. Well, the bundle is the commit entity of beam. Consider the case of
>> ESIO.batchSize being < to bundle size. While processing records, when the
>> number of elements reaches batchSize, an ES bulk insert will be issued but
>> no finishBundle. If there is a problem later on in the bundle processing
>> before the finishBundle, the checkpoint will still be at the beginning of
>> the bundle, so all the bundle will be retried leading to duplicate
>> documents. Thanks for raising that! I'm CCing the dev list so that someone
>> could correct me on the checkpointing mecanism if I'm missing something.
>> Besides I'm thinking about forcing the user to provide an id in all cases
>> to workaround this issue.
>>
>> 2. Correct.
>>
>> Best,
>> Etienne
>>
>> Le 15/11/2017 à 02:16, Chet Aldrich a écrit :
>>
>>> Hello all!
>>>
>>> So I’ve been using the ElasticSearchIO sink for a project (unfortunately
>>> it’s Elasticsearch 5.x, and so I’ve been messing around with the latest RC)
>>> and I’m finding that it doesn’t allow for changing the document ID, but
>>> only lets you pass in a record, which means that the document ID is
>>> auto-generated. See this line for what specifically is happening:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/java/io/elas
>>> ticsearch/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/elasticsear
>>> ch/ElasticsearchIO.java#L838
>>>
>>> Essentially the data part of the document is being placed but it doesn’t
>>> allow for other properties, such as the document ID, to be set.
>>>
>>> This leads to two problems:
>>>
>>> 1. Beam doesn’t necessarily guarantee exactly-once execution for a given
>>> item in a PCollection, as I understand it. This means that you may get more
>>> than one record in Elastic for a given item in a PCollection that you pass
>>> in.
>>>
>>> 2. You can’t do partial updates to an index. If you run a batch job
>>> once, and then run the batch job again on the same index without clearing
>>> it, you just double everything in there.
>>>
>>> Is there any good way around this?
>>>
>>> I’d be happy to try writing up a PR for this in theory, but not sure how
>>> to best approach it. Also would like to figure out a way to get around this
>>> in the meantime, if anyone has any ideas.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Chet
>>>
>>> P.S. CCed echauc...@gmail.com  because it
>>> seems like he’s been doing work related to the elastic sink.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
> --
> Jean-Baptiste Onofré
> jbono...@apache.org
> http://blog.nanthrax.net
> Talend - http://www.talend.com
>

Re: Does ElasticsearchIO in the latest RC support adding document IDs?

[Jean-Baptiste Onofré]

I think it's also related to the discussion Romain raised on the dev mailing 
list (gap between batch size, checkpointing & bundles).


Regards
JB

On 11/15/2017 09:53 AM, Etienne Chauchot wrote:

Hi Chet,

What you say is totally true, docs written using ElasticSearchIO will always 
have an ES generated id. But it might change in the future, indeed it might be a 
good thing to allow the user to pass an id. Just in 5 seconds thinking, I see 3 
possible designs for that.


a.(simplest) use a json special field for the id, if it is provided by the user 
in the input json then it is used, auto-generated id otherwise.


b. (a bit less user friendly) PCollection with K as an id. But forces the 
user to do a Pardo before writing to ES to output KV pairs of 


c. (a lot more complex) Allow the IO to serialize/deserialize java beans and 
have an String id field. Matching java types to ES types is quite tricky, so, 
for now we just relied on the user to serialize his beans into json and let ES 
match the types automatically.


Related to the problems you raise bellow:

1. Well, the bundle is the commit entity of beam. Consider the case of 
ESIO.batchSize being < to bundle size. While processing records, when the number 
of elements reaches batchSize, an ES bulk insert will be issued but no 
finishBundle. If there is a problem later on in the bundle processing before the 
finishBundle, the checkpoint will still be at the beginning of the bundle, so 
all the bundle will be retried leading to duplicate documents. Thanks for 
raising that! I'm CCing the dev list so that someone could correct me on the 
checkpointing mecanism if I'm missing something. Besides I'm thinking about 
forcing the user to provide an id in all cases to workaround this issue.


2. Correct.

Best,
Etienne

Le 15/11/2017 à 02:16, Chet Aldrich a écrit :

Hello all!

So I’ve been using the ElasticSearchIO sink for a project (unfortunately it’s 
Elasticsearch 5.x, and so I’ve been messing around with the latest RC) and I’m 
finding that it doesn’t allow for changing the document ID, but only lets you 
pass in a record, which means that the document ID is auto-generated. See this 
line for what specifically is happening:


https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/java/io/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/elasticsearch/ElasticsearchIO.java#L838

Essentially the data part of the document is being placed but it doesn’t allow 
for other properties, such as the document ID, to be set.


This leads to two problems:

1. Beam doesn’t necessarily guarantee exactly-once execution for a given item 
in a PCollection, as I understand it. This means that you may get more than 
one record in Elastic for a given item in a PCollection that you pass in.


2. You can’t do partial updates to an index. If you run a batch job once, and 
then run the batch job again on the same index without clearing it, you just 
double everything in there.


Is there any good way around this?

I’d be happy to try writing up a PR for this in theory, but not sure how to 
best approach it. Also would like to figure out a way to get around this in 
the meantime, if anyone has any ideas.


Best,

Chet

P.S. CCed echauc...@gmail.com  because it seems 
like he’s been doing work related to the elastic sink.







--
Jean-Baptiste Onofré
jbono...@apache.org
http://blog.nanthrax.net
Talend - http://www.talend.com

Re: Does ElasticsearchIO in the latest RC support adding document IDs?

[Etienne Chauchot]

Hi Chet,

What you say is totally true, docs written using ElasticSearchIO will 
always have an ES generated id. But it might change in the future, 
indeed it might be a good thing to allow the user to pass an id. Just in 
5 seconds thinking, I see 3 possible designs for that.


a.(simplest) use a json special field for the id, if it is provided by 
the user in the input json then it is used, auto-generated id otherwise.


b. (a bit less user friendly) PCollection with K as an id. But 
forces the user to do a Pardo before writing to ES to output KV pairs of 



c. (a lot more complex) Allow the IO to serialize/deserialize java beans 
and have an String id field. Matching java types to ES types is quite 
tricky, so, for now we just relied on the user to serialize his beans 
into json and let ES match the types automatically.


Related to the problems you raise bellow:

1. Well, the bundle is the commit entity of beam. Consider the case of 
ESIO.batchSize being < to bundle size. While processing records, when 
the number of elements reaches batchSize, an ES bulk insert will be 
issued but no finishBundle. If there is a problem later on in the bundle 
processing before the finishBundle, the checkpoint will still be at the 
beginning of the bundle, so all the bundle will be retried leading to 
duplicate documents. Thanks for raising that! I'm CCing the dev list so 
that someone could correct me on the checkpointing mecanism if I'm 
missing something. Besides I'm thinking about forcing the user to 
provide an id in all cases to workaround this issue.


2. Correct.

Best,
Etienne

Le 15/11/2017 à 02:16, Chet Aldrich a écrit :

Hello all!

So I’ve been using the ElasticSearchIO sink for a project 
(unfortunately it’s Elasticsearch 5.x, and so I’ve been messing around 
with the latest RC) and I’m finding that it doesn’t allow for changing 
the document ID, but only lets you pass in a record, which means that 
the document ID is auto-generated. See this line for what specifically 
is happening:


https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/java/io/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/elasticsearch/ElasticsearchIO.java#L838

Essentially the data part of the document is being placed but it 
doesn’t allow for other properties, such as the document ID, to be set.


This leads to two problems:

1. Beam doesn’t necessarily guarantee exactly-once execution for a 
given item in a PCollection, as I understand it. This means that you 
may get more than one record in Elastic for a given item in a 
PCollection that you pass in.


2. You can’t do partial updates to an index. If you run a batch job 
once, and then run the batch job again on the same index without 
clearing it, you just double everything in there.


Is there any good way around this?

I’d be happy to try writing up a PR for this in theory, but not sure 
how to best approach it. Also would like to figure out a way to get 
around this in the meantime, if anyone has any ideas.


Best,

Chet

P.S. CCed echauc...@gmail.com  because it 
seems like he’s been doing work related to the elastic sink.

Re: Does ElasticsearchIO in the latest RC support adding document IDs?

[Vilhelm von Ehrenheim]

I second this. In my case i have a lot of stateful updates in my stream so
it doesnt work at all. I ended up using Kafka between to mitigate the issue
but it would be great with an IO connector that writes on keys directly.

I think a PR is always welcome. :)

/ Vilhelm

On 15 Nov 2017 05:16, "Chet Aldrich"  wrote:

> Hello all!
>
> So I’ve been using the ElasticSearchIO sink for a project (unfortunately
> it’s Elasticsearch 5.x, and so I’ve been messing around with the latest RC)
> and I’m finding that it doesn’t allow for changing the document ID, but
> only lets you pass in a record, which means that the document ID is
> auto-generated. See this line for what specifically is happening:
>
> https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/java/io/
> elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/
> elasticsearch/ElasticsearchIO.java#L838
>
> Essentially the data part of the document is being placed but it doesn’t
> allow for other properties, such as the document ID, to be set.
>
> This leads to two problems:
>
> 1. Beam doesn’t necessarily guarantee exactly-once execution for a given
> item in a PCollection, as I understand it. This means that you may get more
> than one record in Elastic for a given item in a PCollection that you pass
> in.
>
> 2. You can’t do partial updates to an index. If you run a batch job once,
> and then run the batch job again on the same index without clearing it, you
> just double everything in there.
>
> Is there any good way around this?
>
> I’d be happy to try writing up a PR for this in theory, but not sure how
> to best approach it. Also would like to figure out a way to get around this
> in the meantime, if anyone has any ideas.
>
> Best,
>
> Chet
>
> P.S. CCed echauc...@gmail.com because it seems like he’s been doing work
> related to the elastic sink.
>
>
>

Does ElasticsearchIO in the latest RC support adding document IDs?

[Chet Aldrich]

Hello all! 

So I’ve been using the ElasticSearchIO sink for a project (unfortunately it’s 
Elasticsearch 5.x, and so I’ve been messing around with the latest RC) and I’m 
finding that it doesn’t allow for changing the document ID, but only lets you 
pass in a record, which means that the document ID is auto-generated. See this 
line for what specifically is happening: 

https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/master/sdks/java/io/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/elasticsearch/ElasticsearchIO.java#L838
 

 

Essentially the data part of the document is being placed but it doesn’t allow 
for other properties, such as the document ID, to be set. 

This leads to two problems: 

1. Beam doesn’t necessarily guarantee exactly-once execution for a given item 
in a PCollection, as I understand it. This means that you may get more than one 
record in Elastic for a given item in a PCollection that you pass in. 

2. You can’t do partial updates to an index. If you run a batch job once, and 
then run the batch job again on the same index without clearing it, you just 
double everything in there. 

Is there any good way around this? 

I’d be happy to try writing up a PR for this in theory, but not sure how to 
best approach it. Also would like to figure out a way to get around this in the 
meantime, if anyone has any ideas. 

Best, 

Chet

P.S. CCed echauc...@gmail.com  because it seems 
like he’s been doing work related to the elastic sink.