Elasticsearch-js: Document not found immediately after it is saved

[bttf]

Searching for a document immediately after it is saved, i.e. searching for it in its callback/promise will give you no matching results. For example:

client.create({
  ...
}).then(function (res) {
  client.search({ ... }) // no matching results
});

Wildcard query string '*' results in list of matching entries but newly created document missing from that list.

I tried searching after a slight delay (500ms) and the search did come back with the newly saved document.

[rahulpatel]

Elasticsearch by default refreshes each shard every 1s, so the document will be available to search 1s after indexing it.

Search for index.refresh_interval on the indicies settings page. You'll want to set that to either something low or manually call refresh after indexing the document.

[bttf]

Nice; I will try that later this afternoon and update this ticket accordingly.

I see that the JS client has a way to manually refresh indices, but is there a way to pass in the configuration for refresh_interval on client instantiation?

[bttf]

On second thought it seems that it would make better sense to set refresh_interval server-side than client side

[rahulpatel]

So you can set it in the server-side config if this is going to be your use-case, but I'd recommend manually refreshing the index if you're not making a lot of these requests.