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Fixes #841

What does this PR do?

Adds an ids option to DocumentsQuery, so specific documents can be retrieved with getDocuments and getRawDocuments:

DocumentsQuery query = new DocumentsQuery().setIds(new String[] {"1", "2"});
index.getDocuments(query, Movie.class);
  • Includes ids in both the query string (toQuery) and the JSON body (toString).
  • Sends requests with ids through POST /documents/fetch, so long lists of IDs don't hit URL length limits.
  • An empty ids array returns no documents rather than every document.

Validation

Run with the repo's Docker setup against meilisearch-enterprise:v1.55:

  • spotlessApply ran, and all 116 unit tests pass, including 3 new ones in DocumentsQueryTest.
  • The 3 new integration tests in DocumentsTest pass. They cover multiple IDs plus an unknown one, IDs with fields, and an empty list.

CI won't run the new integration tests, because the integrationTest task currently runs no tests (see #1006). To run them, I temporarily gave the task its test classes and classpath through an init script, which isn't part of this PR. With that in place, 224 of 240 integration tests pass. The same 16 tests fail on untouched main (221 of 237 pass), so this change doesn't cause them. #1006 lists those failures.

I didn't run these tests against latest, which is the version CI uses.

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I didn't add a code sample, because I wasn't sure which sample key the docs expect. I can add one if you tell me the key.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Retrieve documents by specifying one or more IDs, with support for selecting which fields to return.
    • ID-based searches return matching documents; unknown IDs are excluded, and an empty ID list returns no documents.

Add an ids field to DocumentsQuery so getDocuments and getRawDocuments
can retrieve specific documents. Requests with ids use POST
/documents/fetch so long lists of IDs don't hit URL length limits.

Fixes meilisearch#841

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The SDK adds an ids property to DocumentsQuery. Typed and raw document retrieval use the /fetch POST route when either filter or ids is non-null. Tests cover ID serialization and document retrieval by ID.

Changes: Document ID retrieval

Layer / File(s) Summary
Add IDs to DocumentsQuery
src/main/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/model/DocumentsQuery.java, src/test/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/DocumentsQueryTest.java
DocumentsQuery adds an ids property and includes it in query-string and JSON serialization. Tests check ID ordering and omission when unset.
Retrieve documents by IDs
src/main/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/Documents.java, src/test/java/com/meilisearch/integration/DocumentsTest.java
Typed and raw retrieval select /fetch when ids is non-null. Integration tests cover known and unknown IDs, selected fields, and an empty ID list.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Feature

Suggested reviewers: bhupixb, alallema

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 4b79f

ID-based retrieval has no established merge-blocking defect. Comparing the raw response total numerically is an optional test improvement.

Pre-merge checks: Passed 4 · Failed 1

Failed Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Docstring Coverage Warning Docstring coverage is 66.67% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
Passed Passed checks: 4 passed

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Title check Passed The title "Add support for getting documents by ID" matches the main change. The PR adds an ids option to DocumentsQuery, and getDocuments and getRawDocuments use it to fetch documents by ID t…
Linked Issues check Passed Issue #841 requires document retrieval by IDs. DocumentsQuery adds ids and serializes it in toQuery() and toString(). getDocuments and getRawDocuments send any non-null ids through `POST…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The supplied change summary lists only the document retrieval implementation and focused unit and integration tests. These changes directly support issue #841. No unrelated production behavior or unre…
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The title "Add support for getting documents by ID" matches the main change. The PR adds an ids option to DocumentsQuery, and getDocuments and getRawDocuments use it to fetch documents by ID through the /fetch route. The linked issue #841 asks for the same capability.

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Explanation

Issue #841 requires document retrieval by IDs. DocumentsQuery adds ids and serializes it in toQuery() and toString(). getDocuments and getRawDocuments send any non-null ids through POST /documents/fetch. The supplied PR evidence reports tests for multiple IDs, unknown IDs, selected fields, and an empty ID array. The focused source and unit-test evidence supports the implementation and serialization behavior.

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The supplied change summary lists only the document retrieval implementation and focused unit and integration tests. These changes directly support issue #841. No unrelated production behavior or unrelated test changes are shown.

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Nitpick comments: 1

src/test/java/com/meilisearch/integration/DocumentsTest.java: 1

445-446: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value

Assert the raw total as a number.

Matchers.containsString("\"total\":2") is a substring match. It also accepts "total":20 through "total":29 and "total":200 through "total":299. Parsing the value and comparing it to 2 checks the exact total. The typed assertion checks only the returned IDs.

Suggested fix

 import com.google.gson.JsonObject;
+import com.google.gson.JsonParser;
         String rawResult = index.getRawDocuments(query);
-        assertThat(rawResult, Matchers.containsString("\"total\":2"));
+        int total = JsonParser.parseString(rawResult).getAsJsonObject().get("total").getAsInt();
+        assertThat(total, equalTo(2));
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Review comment at @src/test/java/com/meilisearch/integration/DocumentsTest.java
around lines 445 - 446:
Update the rawResult assertion after index.getRawDocuments(query) to parse the
JSON and compare the numeric total exactly to 2, rather than using a substring
match that can accept larger totals.

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Review comments at
@src/test/java/com/meilisearch/integration/DocumentsTest.java:
- Around line 445-446: Update the rawResult assertion after
index.getRawDocuments(query) to parse the JSON and compare the numeric total
exactly to 2, rather than using a substring match that can accept larger totals.

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  • src/main/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/Documents.java
  • src/main/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/model/DocumentsQuery.java
  • src/test/java/com/meilisearch/integration/DocumentsTest.java
  • src/test/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/DocumentsQueryTest.java

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