update when no matching id

[alex noname]

Hi everyone,

I'm doing some solr update coding and the solr version I'm using is 8.5.1

So far I can successfully do a partial update by sending

{
    "id":"1",
    "month":{"set":1}
}

to the /update handler. This way I can update the month filed to be 1 for
record with id 1.


*But the thing is, if there's no existing record with id 1, a new record
will be created with provided id and month info.*

One workaround is, before issuing an update, I do a solr query for id:1,
only when the result is not empty then I do the update.

Just want to know, if there's a better way to do this?



Thanks