Web Service Method: Update or Create an Indexed Document

Abstract

Description
This API updates an existing entry in the search index with the provided properties, or creates a new entry if the requested entry does not exist.

Note

All behaviour is identical to the createIndexedDocument API method with /api/content/create

In order to find appropriate content with search services, you should extract and annotate uploaded content with concepts from the thesaurus in advance, during content creation, and update with /api/content/create and /api/content/update APIs.

URL: /api/content/update

Request

Supported Method
POST

Content-Type

application/x-www-form-urlencoded

Content Update Request Object Attributes

Attribute	Type	Required	Comment
author	String	true	Content author
context	String	false	Content context
date	Date	false	Content creation
facets	Map of String	false	Content Map of manually created facets (SearchField, facets)
identifier	URL	true	Content URL/ID
language	String	false	Content language
searchSpaceId	String	true	SearchSpace Identifier
synchronize	boolean	false	Synchronize automatically. Set to false for bulk content push. Refresh manually.
text	String	false	Content text
title	String	true	Content title
useExtraction	boolean	false	Use extraction for tagging
website	URL	false	Content from external URL (web crawling)

Note

If you do not specify a searchSpaceId, the return will list results for the default Search Space.

Example Request

{
  "date" : "2017-01-27",
  "identifier" : "https://semantic-web.com/",
  "searchSpaceId" : "some searchSpaceId",
  "website" : "https://semantic-web.com/",
  "author" : "some author",
  "context" : "some context",
  "useExtraction" : false,
  "language" : "en",
  "text" : "some text",
  "title" : "All about Chuck Norris",
  "facets" : { },
  "synchronize" : true
}

Response

Content Type

text/plain

Status: 200 - OK

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