Batches: How to send multiple commands using a batch?

To send multiple operations in a single request, reducing the number of remote calls and allowing several operations to share same transaction, bulk_docs endpoint should be used.

Syntax

curl \
	http://{serverName}/databases/{databaseName}/bulk_docs \
	-X POST \
	-d @commands.txt

Request

Response

Example

curl -X POST "http://localhost:8080/databases/NorthWind/bulk_docs" 
-d 
[
	{"Document":
		{"Name":"My Product","Supplier":"suppliers/999","Id":null},
	"Key":"products/999",
	"Method":"PUT",
	"AdditionalData":null,
	"Metadata":{}
},{
	"Document":
		{"Name":"My Supplier","Id":null},
	"Key":"suppliers/999",
	"Method":"PUT",
	"AdditionalData":null,
	"Metadata":{}
},{
	"Key":"products/2",
	"Method":"DELETE",
	"AdditionalData":null,
	"Etag":null}
]
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
[
	{
		"Etag":"01000000-0000-0009-0000-000000000001",
		"Method":"PUT",
		"Key":"products/999",
		"Metadata":{"Last-Modified":"2014-11-12T11:38:42.3180730Z"},
		"AdditionalData":null,
		"PatchResult":null,
		"Deleted":null
	},
	{
		"Etag":"01000000-0000-0009-0000-000000000002",
		"Method":"PUT",
		"Key":"suppliers/999",
		"Metadata":{"Last-Modified":"2014-11-12T11:38:42.3180730Z"},
		"AdditionalData":null,
		"PatchResult":null,
		"Deleted":null
	},
	{
		"Etag":null,
		"Method":"DELETE",
		"Key":"products/2",
		"Metadata":null,
		"AdditionalData":null,
		"PatchResult":null,
		"Deleted":true
	}
]

Concurrency

If an ETag is specified in the command, that ETag is compared to the current ETag on the document on the server. If the ETag does not match, a 409 Conflict status code will be returned from the server, causing a ConcurrencyException to be thrown. In such a case, the entire operation fails and non of the updates that were attempted will succeed.

Transactions

All the operations in the batch will succeed or fail as a transaction. Other users will not be able to see any of the changes until the entire batch completes.