refresh param to bulk not working

[clintongormley]

Passing refresh=true to the bulk command does not seem to have any effect.

# [Sat Jan  8 20:01:30 2011] Protocol: http, Server: 127.0.0.1:9200
curl -XPUT 'http://127.0.0.1:9200/foo/'  -d '
{}
'

# [Sat Jan  8 20:01:30 2011] Response:
# {
#    "ok" : true,
#    "acknowledged" : true
# }

# [Sat Jan  8 20:01:34 2011] Protocol: http, Server: 127.0.0.1:9200
curl -XPOST 'http://127.0.0.1:9200/_bulk?refresh=true'  -d '
{"index" : {"_index" : "foo", "_id" : 1, "_type" : "bar"}}
{"text" : "foo"}
{"index" : {"_index" : "foo", "_id" : 2, "_type" : "bar"}}
{"text" : "bar"}
'

# [Sat Jan  8 20:01:34 2011] Response:
# {"items" : [{"index" : {"ok" : true, "_index" : "foo", "_id" : "1
# > ", "_type" : "bar"}}, {"index" : {"ok" : true, "_index" : "foo"
# > , "_id" : "2", "_type" : "bar"}}]}

# [Sat Jan  8 20:01:34 2011] Protocol: http, Server: 127.0.0.1:9200
curl -XGET 'http://127.0.0.1:9200/foo/_count'  -d '
{"match_all" : {}}'

# [Sat Jan  8 20:01:34 2011] Response:
# {"count" : 0, "_shards" : {"failed" : 0, "successful" : 5, "total
# > " : 5}}

I also tried setting index.refresh_interval: -1 and passing refresh=true as above, and the index doesn't refresh at all, until I pass it an actual /_refresh

[kimchy]

refresh param to bulk not working, closed by d650705.

[clintongormley]

OK - refreshes are now being triggered, but the refresh is still async, which makes for clumsy client code.

In other words, I do the bulk index, having passed refresh=true and then I expect to be able to continue directly on to the next statement in my code, which expects the index to have been refreshed.

However, what is happening is that the refresh is queued, and by the time I send my next request, it still hasn't completed. This means that I'm having to wait an unspecified amount of time (because I don't know how long the refresh will take) before I can continue running my code.

Should refresh=true not block?