Cluster: Document Conflicts in Client-side

What are conflicts?

When two or more changes of a single document are done concurrently in two separate nodes, RavenDB cannot know which one of the changes is the correct one. This is called document conflict.
For more information about conflicts and their resolution, see article about conflicts.

When is a conflict exception thrown?

DocumentConflictException will be thrown for any access of a conflicted document. Fetching attachments of a conflicted document will throw InvalidOperationException on the server.

How can the conflict can be resolved from the client side?

• PUT of a document with ID that belongs to conflicted document will resolve the conflict.

try (IDocumentSession session = store.openSession()) {
    User user = new User();
    user.setName("John Doe");

    session.store(user, "users/123");
    // users/123 is a conflicted document
    session.saveChanges();
    // when this request is finished, the conflict for user/132 is resolved.
}

• DELETE of a conflicted document will resolve its conflict.

try (IDocumentSession session = store.openSession()) {
    session.delete("users/123"); // users/123 is a conflicted document
    session.saveChanges(); //when this request is finished, the conflict for users/132 is resolved.
}

• Incoming replication will resolve conflict if the incoming document has a larger change vector.