Package co.elastic.clients.elasticsearch.indices

Class SplitRequest

java.lang.Object
co.elastic.clients.elasticsearch._types.RequestBase
co.elastic.clients.elasticsearch.indices.SplitRequest
All Implemented Interfaces:
JsonpSerializable
@JsonpDeserializable public class SplitRequest extends RequestBase implements JsonpSerializable
Split an index. Split an index into a new index with more primary shards.

  • Before you can split an index:

  • The index must be read-only.

  • The cluster health status must be green.

You can do make an index read-only with the following request using the add index block API: 

 PUT /my_source_index/_block/write

The current write index on a data stream cannot be split. In order to split the current write index, the data stream must first be rolled over so that a new write index is created and then the previous write index can be split.

The number of times the index can be split (and the number of shards that each original shard can be split into) is determined by the index.number_of_routing_shards setting. The number of routing shards specifies the hashing space that is used internally to distribute documents across shards with consistent hashing. For instance, a 5 shard index with number_of_routing_shards set to 30 (5 x 2 x 3) could be split by a factor of 2 or 3.

A split operation:

  • Creates a new target index with the same definition as the source index, but with a larger number of primary shards.
  • Hard-links segments from the source index into the target index. If the file system doesn't support hard-linking, all segments are copied into the new index, which is a much more time consuming process.
  • Hashes all documents again, after low level files are created, to delete documents that belong to a different shard.
  • Recovers the target index as though it were a closed index which had just been re-opened.

IMPORTANT: Indices can only be split if they satisfy the following requirements:

  • The target index must not exist.
  • The source index must have fewer primary shards than the target index.
  • The number of primary shards in the target index must be a multiple of the number of primary shards in the source index.
  • The node handling the split process must have sufficient free disk space to accommodate a second copy of the existing index.
See Also:

  • Field Details

  • Method Details

    • of

      public static SplitRequest of(Function<SplitRequest.Builder,ObjectBuilder<SplitRequest>> fn)

    • aliases

      public final Map<String,Alias> aliases()
      Aliases for the resulting index.

      API name: aliases

    • index

      public final String index()
      Required - Name of the source index to split.

      API name: index

    • masterTimeout

      @Nullable public final Time masterTimeout()
      Period to wait for a connection to the master node. If no response is received before the timeout expires, the request fails and returns an error.

      API name: master_timeout

    • settings

      public final Map<String,JsonData> settings()
      Configuration options for the target index.

      API name: settings

    • target

      public final String target()
      Required - Name of the target index to create.

      API name: target

    • timeout

      @Nullable public final Time timeout()
      Period to wait for a response. If no response is received before the timeout expires, the request fails and returns an error.

      API name: timeout

    • waitForActiveShards

      @Nullable public final WaitForActiveShards waitForActiveShards()
      The number of shard copies that must be active before proceeding with the operation. Set to all or any positive integer up to the total number of shards in the index (number_of_replicas+1).

      API name: wait_for_active_shards

    • serialize

      public void serialize(jakarta.json.stream.JsonGenerator generator, JsonpMapper mapper)
      Serialize this object to JSON.
      Specified by:
      serialize in interface JsonpSerializable

    • serializeInternal

      protected void serializeInternal(jakarta.json.stream.JsonGenerator generator, JsonpMapper mapper)

    • setupSplitRequestDeserializer

      protected static void setupSplitRequestDeserializer(ObjectDeserializer<SplitRequest.Builder> op)