How to Reuse a “builder”

[xiaoyu156]

Java API client version

8.5.3

Java version

8

Elasticsearch Version

8.5.3

Problem description

When I repeat build

[cro-magnon]

Issue created 7 months ago and no comment. Reassuring. Maybe more comments will get someone's attention? Here goes nothing I guess.

I'm having this same issue as well. Why can the builder only be built once? Seems to defeat the point of builder.
In the ES 7 java client code, I was using a SearchRequestBuilder and was doing searchAfter (past 10k+ docs) paging where after each search I'd just update the searchAfter value in a loop until I got to the page I needed. Can't do that now with the ES 8 java stuffs that have SearchRequest.Builder. Can at least a new method be provided like SearchRequest.Builder newBuilder = SearchRequest.Builder.of(oldBuilder)? Of course I'd rather just not be limited to building something only once. Kind of takes away a lot of freedom.

[MatthewBenbrook]

I've just come across this as I thought the same thing, my solution was to instead of passing a SearchRequest.Builder to my function, I passed a Supplier<SearchRequest.Builder>, which gives you the reuse you need

[l-trotta]

Hello and sorry for the delay. We have a POC of a rebuild() method that would take an object and return a new instance of it builder, but still had no time to complete it. I'll come back to this in the near future hopefully.