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elasticsearch spring-boot spring-data-elasticsearch Java

I'm refactoring my project and I'm stuck on something that should probably be simple..... I'm facing a `version_conflict_engine_exception` when trying to update documents in my Elasticsearch index using Spring Boot with the Spring Data Elasticsearch library. I'm using Elasticsearch version 7.14.0 and Spring Data Elasticsearch version 4.2.1. My documents have a versioning strategy enabled, and I'm attempting to handle updates in a service method. Here’s a snippet of the code I'm using to update the document: ```java import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired; import org.springframework.stereotype.Service; import org.springframework.data.elasticsearch.core.ElasticsearchRestTemplate; import org.springframework.data.elasticsearch.core.query.UpdateQuery; import org.springframework.data.elasticsearch.core.query.UpdateQueryBuilder; @Service public class MyService { @Autowired private ElasticsearchRestTemplate elasticsearchTemplate; public void updateDocument(MyDocument document) { UpdateQuery updateQuery = UpdateQuery.builder(document.getId()) .withDocument(new Document() .append("fieldToUpdate", document.getFieldToUpdate())) .build(); elasticsearchTemplate.update(updateQuery); } } ``` The error occurs when the document's version in Elasticsearch doesn't match the version of the document I'm trying to update. Here’s the error message I encounter: ``` ElasticsearchException: version_conflict_engine_exception: [my_index][1] [document_id]: version conflict, document already exists (current version [1]) ``` I have tried the following approaches to resolve the issue: 1. Ensured that the document ID being updated exists in the index. 2. Implemented a retry mechanism to handle the exception, but it's not a clean solution and leads to stale reads. 3. Used `getVersion()` method while fetching the document to ensure the correct version is being used, yet it still throws the version conflict. Could someone guide me on the best way to handle this version conflict in Spring Data Elasticsearch? Is there a recommended pattern or configuration that I might be missing? What am I doing wrong? I'm developing on Debian with Java. Has anyone dealt with something similar? This is happening in both development and production on Ubuntu 22.04. Thanks for any help you can provide!