Elasticsearch Auditing

Preparing entities

In order for the auditing code to be able to decide whether an entity instance is new, the entity must implement the Persistable<ID> interface which is defined as follows:

package org.springframework.data.domain;

import org.springframework.lang.Nullable;

public interface Persistable<ID> {
    @Nullable
    ID getId();

    boolean isNew();
}

As the existence of an Id is not a sufficient criterion to determine if an enitity is new in Elasticsearch, additional information is necessary. One way is to use the creation-relevant auditing fields for this decision:

A Person entity might look as follows - omitting getter and setter methods for brevity:

@Document(indexName = "person")
public class Person implements Persistable<Long> {
    @Id private Long id;
    private String lastName;
    private String firstName;
    @CreatedDate
    @Field(type = FieldType.Date, format = DateFormat.basic_date_time)
    private Instant createdDate;
    @CreatedBy
    private String createdBy
    @Field(type = FieldType.Date, format = DateFormat.basic_date_time)
    @LastModifiedDate
    private Instant lastModifiedDate;
    @LastModifiedBy
    private String lastModifiedBy;

    public Long getId() {                                                 (1)
        return id;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isNew() {
        return id == null || (createdDate == null && createdBy == null);  (2)
    }
}

1	the getter is the required implementation from the interface
2	an object is new if it either has no `id` or none of fields containing creation attributes are set.

Activating auditing

After the entities have been set up and providing the AuditorAware - or ReactiveAuditorAware - the Auditing must be activated by setting the @EnableElasticsearchAuditing on a configuration class:

@Configuration
@EnableElasticsearchRepositories
@EnableElasticsearchAuditing
class MyConfiguration {
   // configuration code
}

When using the reactive stack this must be:

@Configuration
@EnableReactiveElasticsearchRepositories
@EnableReactiveElasticsearchAuditing
class MyConfiguration {
   // configuration code
}

If your code contains more than one AuditorAware bean for different types, you must provide the name of the bean to use as an argument to the auditorAwareRef parameter of the @EnableElasticsearchAuditing annotation.