Bulk updating documents

[jimlambie]

It is currently possible to send an array of documents to the API for creation, but not to send an array of documents to be updated.

Currently to update a document the ID must be passed in the request URL and the update query as the body.

POST /1.0/library/notices/1234 HTTP/1.1
Host: api.example.com
content-type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer 171c8c12-6e9b-47a8-be29-0524070b0c65

{ "status": "published"  }

It would be useful to allow sending an array of IDs to be updated:

POST /1.0/library/notices/1234,5678,9012,3456 HTTP/1.1
Host: api.example.com
content-type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer 171c8c12-6e9b-47a8-be29-0524070b0c65

{ "status": "published"  }

[jimlambie]

Or perhaps even better (more RESTful?):

PUT /1.0/library/notices HTTP/1.1
Host: api.example.com
content-type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer 171c8c12-6e9b-47a8-be29-0524070b0c65

{
  ids: [1234,5678,9012,3456], 
  update: { "status": "published" }
}

[vorpalhex]

👍

[mingard]

Worth implementing initializeOrderedBulkOp in anticipation for large scale write operations on a DB under read load?

[jimlambie]

@mingard please open a separate issue for the Bulk operations 🍰

[jimlambie]

Closed by 22950a2