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updateSpecifications

Update parts of a specification, by replacing some fields or adding new ones.
Note that you cannot remove fields this way: missing fields will simply be left unchanged.

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updateSpecifications(content, [options], [callback])

Arguments	Type	Description
content	JSON object	Content of the specification to update
options	JSON object	Optional parameters
callback	function	Optional callback

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Options

Option	Type	Description	Default
queuable	boolean	Make this request queuable or not	true
refresh	string	If set to wait_for, Kuzzle will wait the persistence layer to finish indexing (available with Elasticsearch 5.x and above)	undefined
retryOnConflict	int	Number of retries to attempt before rejecting this update because of a cluster sync conflict	0

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Return Value

Returns the Collection object to allow chaining.

Usage

<<< ./snippets/update-specifications-1.java

Callback response

{
  "index": {
    "collection": {
      "strict": "true",
      "fields": {
        "foo": {
          "mandatory": "true",
          "type": "string",
          "defaultValue": "bar"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}