set custom doc_id

yodog

i'm fetching some records from elasticsearch, and after a few calculation i'd like to store it in a file.
the problem is i cant find a way to set the doc_id.
its always a incremental integer.
in my elasticsearch solution i have a custom value (defined by me) as the document _id, and i would like to use the same value

msiemens

Hey yodog,

at the moment there is no way to specify a custom document ID when inserting a new document. But it's a feature I would consider. If you create a new issue in the TinyDB GitHub repo we can discuss possible solutions there.

Cheers!

yodog

thanks. i started https://github.com/msiemens/tinydb/issues/303

dagraham

I wouldn't claim to know much, but I thought it was a standard database practice to have unique identifier for records that was not used for anything else and never, ever changed.