Error on updating a previously created index

[manelio]

I receive a 'index [product] already exists' error when trying to update an index.

Version: Zinc 0.4.7, dockerized

Here's a simple and self-explanatory code to reproduce the problem:

import axios from 'axios'

const api = axios.create({
  baseURL: 'http://zincsearch:4080/api/',
  auth: {
    username: process.env.ZINC_FIRST_ADMIN_USER,
    password: process.env.ZINC_FIRST_ADMIN_PASSWORD,
  }
})

const data = {
  "name": "product",
  "storage_type": "disk",
  "shard_num": 1,
  "mappings": {
    "properties": {
      "name": {
        "type": "text",
        "index": true,
        "store": true,
        "highlightable": true
      },
    }
  }
}

// First call works as expected

await api({
  method: 'put',
  url: 'index',
  data: data,
})

// Second call fails with error `index [product] already exists`

await api({
  method: 'put',
  url: 'index',
  data: data,
})

// Also fails passing the index id in url

await api({
  method: 'put',
  url: 'index/product',
  data: data,
})

[manelio]

The same happens with mappings. Looking at the code looks like there's no way to update mappings, only creating new ones:

func SetMapping(c *gin.Context) {
  // ...
  // check if mapping field is exists
  if exists {
    indexMappings := index.GetMappings()
    if indexMappings != nil && indexMappings.Len() > 0 {
      for field := range mappings.ListProperty() {
        if _, ok := indexMappings.GetProperty(field); ok {
          zutils.GinRenderJSON(c, http.StatusBadRequest, meta.HTTPResponseError{Error: "index [" + indexName + "] already exists mapping of field [" + field + "]"})
          return
        }
      }
    }

import axios from 'axios'

const api = axios.create({
  baseURL: 'http://zincsearch:4080/',
  auth: {
    username: process.env.ZINC_FIRST_ADMIN_USER,
    password: process.env.ZINC_FIRST_ADMIN_PASSWORD,
  }
})

const data = {
  properties: {
    name: {
      type: "text",
      index: true,
      store: true,
    },
  }

}

await api({
  method: 'put',
  url: 'api/product/_mapping',
  data: data,
})

// Throws an error because 'name' mappings alredy exists

await api({
  method: 'put',
  url: 'api/product/_mapping',
  data: data,
})

Thanks for the effort to create this tool and I wish you luck, but for now it seems too unstable for the use I am looking for and I will switch to an alternative search engine.

[MyWay]

any news on this?