Timestamp fields on update

[virik]

Timestamp fields on update

[guimachiavelli]

Hello @virik—thanks for getting in touch!

From your description, I assume you are using the POST endpoint of the /indexes/{index_uid}/documents route. POST is useful for adding and completely replacing documents.

When you want to partially update a document—for example, if you only want to set your updated field to a new timestamp value—use the PUT endpoint.

Does this help? If so, how did you try to find this information? Knowing that would help us making sure this information is easier to find in the future.

Also, for future reference: we're happy to get user feedback here, but if you are on a rush you can also reach out to our support staff on the Meilisearch Discord server. They tend to reply much more quickly than the documentation team.

Thanks again!

[virik]

hi,

No, I'm using the PUT endpoint. Let's say we have 1 existing product and 1 new product, and a timestamp called "created". For the new product we need to set the timestamp, but for the existing product we should not change it. There should be a way to specify which fields to ignore on existing records.

[guimachiavelli]

Ah, apologies for the misunderstanding. I believe the only solution would be to make two requests: one POST request adding new products, and one PUT request updating existing products. As it stands, and if I understand your use case correctly now, I don't believe this is a documentation issue: there is no Meilisearch feature that does exactly what you need it to do.

If you get in touch with our support team on discord, they might be able to help you come up with better workarounds.

Closing this issue since the docs repo is not the best place for providing user support.