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# Upsert points

PUT http://localhost:6333/collections/{collection_name}/points
Content-Type: application/json

Performs the insert + update action on specified points. Any point with an existing \{id} will be overwritten.

Reference: https://api.qdrant.tech/api-reference/points/upsert-points

## Authentication

- `api-key` header (required) — API Key authentication via header

## Servers

- `http://localhost:6333` (http, default)
- `https://localhost:6333` (https)

## Request

### Path parameters

- `collection_name` (string, required) — Name of the collection to update from

### Query parameters

- `wait` (boolean, optional) — If true, wait for changes to actually happen
- `ordering` (enum, optional) — define ordering guarantees for the operation
  - Allowed values: `weak`, `medium`, `strong`

### Body (application/json)

This endpoint expects a PointInsertOperations.

- `PointInsertOperations`

## Response

### 200

successful operation

- `usage` (CollectionsCollectionNamePointsPutResponsesContentApplicationJsonSchemaUsage, optional)
- `time` (double, optional) — Time spent to process this request
- `status` (string, optional)
- `result` (UpdateResult, optional)

## Types

### PointsBatch

- `batch` (Batch, required)
- `shard_key` (PointsBatchShardKey, optional)
- `update_filter` (PointsBatchUpdateFilter, optional) — If specified, only points that match this filter will be updated, others will be inserted

### PointsList

- `points` (list of PointStruct, required)
- `shard_key` (PointsListShardKey, optional)
- `update_filter` (PointsListUpdateFilter, optional) — If specified, only points that match this filter will be updated, others will be inserted

### CollectionsCollectionNamePointsPutResponsesContentApplicationJsonSchemaUsage

### UpdateResult

- `status` (enum, required) — `Acknowledged` - Request is saved to WAL and will be process in a queue. `Completed` - Request is completed, changes are actual.
  - Allowed values: `acknowledged`, `completed`
- `operation_id` (uint64, optional, nullable) — Sequential number of the operation

### Batch

- `ids` (list of ExtendedPointId, required)
- `vectors` (BatchVectorStruct, required)
- `payloads` (list of BatchPayloadsItems, optional, nullable)

### PointsBatchShardKey

### PointsBatchUpdateFilter

If specified, only points that match this filter will be updated, others will be inserted

### PointStruct

- `id` (ExtendedPointId, required) — Type, used for specifying point ID in user interface
- `vector` (VectorStruct, required) — Full vector data per point separator with single and multiple vector modes
- `payload` (PointStructPayload, optional) — Payload values (optional)

### PointsListShardKey

### PointsListUpdateFilter

If specified, only points that match this filter will be updated, others will be inserted

### Usage

Usage of the hardware resources, spent to process the request

- `hardware` (UsageHardware, optional)
- `inference` (UsageInference, optional)

### ExtendedPointId

Type, used for specifying point ID in user interface

### BatchVectorStruct

### BatchPayloadsItems

### Filter

- `should` (FilterShould, optional) — At least one of those conditions should match
- `min_should` (FilterMinShould, optional) — At least minimum amount of given conditions should match
- `must` (FilterMust, optional) — All conditions must match
- `must_not` (FilterMustNot, optional) — All conditions must NOT match

### VectorStruct

Full vector data per point separator with single and multiple vector modes

### PointStructPayload

Payload values (optional)

### UsageHardware

### UsageInference

### FilterShould

At least one of those conditions should match

### FilterMinShould

At least minimum amount of given conditions should match

### FilterMust

All conditions must match

### FilterMustNot

All conditions must NOT match

### Document

WARN: Work-in-progress, unimplemented Text document for embedding. Requires inference infrastructure, unimplemented.

- `text` (string, required) — Text of the document. This field will be used as input for the embedding model.
- `model` (string, required) — Name of the model used to generate the vector. List of available models depends on a provider.
- `options` (DocumentOptions, optional) — Additional options for the model, will be passed to the inference service as-is. See model cards for available options.

### Image

WARN: Work-in-progress, unimplemented Image object for embedding. Requires inference infrastructure, unimplemented.

- `image` (any, required) — Image data: base64 encoded image or an URL
- `model` (string, required) — Name of the model used to generate the vector. List of available models depends on a provider.
- `options` (map from string to any, optional, nullable) — Parameters for the model Values of the parameters are model-specific

### InferenceObject

WARN: Work-in-progress, unimplemented Custom object for embedding. Requires inference infrastructure, unimplemented.

- `object` (any, required) — Arbitrary data, used as input for the embedding model. Used if the model requires more than one input or a custom input.
- `model` (string, required) — Name of the model used to generate the vector. List of available models depends on a provider.
- `options` (map from string to any, optional, nullable) — Parameters for the model Values of the parameters are model-specific

### HardwareUsage

Usage of the hardware resources, spent to process the request

- `cpu` (integer, required)
- `payload_io_read` (integer, required)
- `payload_io_write` (integer, required)
- `payload_index_io_read` (integer, required)
- `payload_index_io_write` (integer, required)
- `vector_io_read` (integer, required)
- `vector_io_write` (integer, required)

### InferenceUsage

- `models` (map from string to ModelUsage, required)

### MinShould

- `conditions` (list of Condition, required)
- `min_count` (integer, required)

### DocumentOptions

Option variants for text documents. Ether general-purpose options or BM25-specific options. BM25-specific will only take effect if the `qdrant/bm25` is specified as a model.

### ModelUsage

- `tokens` (uint64, required)

### Condition

### Bm25Config

Configuration of the local bm25 models.

- `k` (double, optional, default: 1.2) — Controls term frequency saturation. Higher values mean term frequency has more impact. Default is 1.2
- `b` (double, optional, default: 0.75) — Controls document length normalization. Ranges from 0 (no normalization) to 1 (full normalization). Higher values mean longer documents have less impact. Default is 0.75.
- `avg_len` (double, optional, default: 256) — Expected average document length in the collection. Default is 256.
- `tokenizer` (enum, optional)
  - Allowed values: `prefix`, `whitespace`, `word`, `multilingual`
- `language` (string, optional, nullable) — Defines which language to use for text preprocessing. This parameter is used to construct default stopwords filter and stemmer. To disable language-specific processing, set this to `"language": "none"`. If not specified, English is assumed.
- `lowercase` (boolean, optional, nullable) — Lowercase the text before tokenization. Default is `true`.
- `ascii_folding` (boolean, optional, nullable) — If true, normalize tokens by folding accented characters to ASCII (e.g., "ação" -> "acao"). Default is `false`.
- `stopwords` (Bm25ConfigStopwords, optional) — Configuration of the stopwords filter. Supports list of pre-defined languages and custom stopwords. Default: initialized for specified `language` or English if not specified.
- `stemmer` (Bm25ConfigStemmer, optional) — Configuration of the stemmer. Processes tokens to their root form. Default: initialized Snowball stemmer for specified `language` or English if not specified.
- `min_token_len` (integer, optional, nullable) — Minimum token length to keep. If token is shorter than this, it will be discarded. Default is `None`, which means no minimum length.
- `max_token_len` (integer, optional, nullable) — Maximum token length to keep. If token is longer than this, it will be discarded. Default is `None`, which means no maximum length.

### FieldCondition

All possible payload filtering conditions

- `key` (string, required) — Payload key
- `match` (FieldConditionMatch, optional) — Check if point has field with a given value
- `range` (FieldConditionRange, optional) — Check if points value lies in a given range
- `geo_bounding_box` (FieldConditionGeoBoundingBox, optional) — Check if points geolocation lies in a given area
- `geo_radius` (FieldConditionGeoRadius, optional) — Check if geo point is within a given radius
- `geo_polygon` (FieldConditionGeoPolygon, optional) — Check if geo point is within a given polygon
- `values_count` (FieldConditionValuesCount, optional) — Check number of values of the field
- `is_empty` (boolean, optional, nullable) — Check that the field is empty, alternative syntax for `is_empty: "field_name"`
- `is_null` (boolean, optional, nullable) — Check that the field is null, alternative syntax for `is_null: "field_name"`

### IsEmptyCondition

Select points with empty payload for a specified field

- `is_empty` (PayloadField, required) — Payload field

### IsNullCondition

Select points with null payload for a specified field

- `is_null` (PayloadField, required) — Payload field

### HasIdCondition

ID-based filtering condition

- `has_id` (list of ExtendedPointId, required)

### HasVectorCondition

Filter points which have specific vector assigned

- `has_vector` (string, required)

### NestedCondition

- `nested` (Nested, required) — Select points with payload for a specified nested field

### Bm25ConfigStopwords

Configuration of the stopwords filter. Supports list of pre-defined languages and custom stopwords. Default: initialized for specified `language` or English if not specified.

### Bm25ConfigStemmer

Configuration of the stemmer. Processes tokens to their root form. Default: initialized Snowball stemmer for specified `language` or English if not specified.

### FieldConditionMatch

Check if point has field with a given value

### FieldConditionRange

Check if points value lies in a given range

### FieldConditionGeoBoundingBox

Check if points geolocation lies in a given area

### FieldConditionGeoRadius

Check if geo point is within a given radius

### FieldConditionGeoPolygon

Check if geo point is within a given polygon

### FieldConditionValuesCount

Check number of values of the field

### PayloadField

Payload field

- `key` (string, required) — Payload field name

### Nested

Select points with payload for a specified nested field

- `key` (string, required)
- `filter` (Filter, required)

### GeoBoundingBox

Geo filter request Matches coordinates inside the rectangle, described by coordinates of lop-left and bottom-right edges

- `top_left` (GeoPoint, required) — Geo point payload schema
- `bottom_right` (GeoPoint, required) — Geo point payload schema

### GeoRadius

Geo filter request Matches coordinates inside the circle of `radius` and center with coordinates `center`

- `center` (GeoPoint, required) — Geo point payload schema
- `radius` (double, required) — Radius of the area in meters

### GeoPolygon

Geo filter request Matches coordinates inside the polygon, defined by `exterior` and `interiors`

- `exterior` (GeoLineString, required) — Ordered sequence of GeoPoints representing the line
- `interiors` (list of GeoLineString, optional, nullable) — Interior lines (if present) bound holes within the surface each GeoLineString must consist of a minimum of 4 points, and the first and last points must be the same.

### ValuesCount

Values count filter request

- `lt` (integer, optional, nullable) — point.key.length() \< values\_count.lt
- `gt` (integer, optional, nullable) — point.key.length() > values_count.gt
- `gte` (integer, optional, nullable) — point.key.length() >= values_count.gte
- `lte` (integer, optional, nullable) — point.key.length() \<= values\_count.lte

### GeoPoint

Geo point payload schema

- `lon` (double, required)
- `lat` (double, required)

### GeoLineString

Ordered sequence of GeoPoints representing the line

- `points` (list of GeoPoint, required)

## Examples

**Request**

```json
{
  "batch": {
    "ids": [
      42
    ],
    "vectors": {}
  }
}
```

**Response**

```json
{
  "usage": {
    "hardware": {
      "cpu": 1,
      "payload_io_read": 1,
      "payload_io_write": 1,
      "payload_index_io_read": 1,
      "payload_index_io_write": 1,
      "vector_io_read": 1,
      "vector_io_write": 1
    },
    "inference": {
      "models": {}
    }
  },
  "time": 0.002,
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {
    "status": "acknowledged",
    "operation_id": 1
  }
}
```

**SDK Code**

```python
from qdrant_client import QdrantClient, models

client = QdrantClient(url="http://localhost:6333")

client.upsert(
    collection_name="{collection_name}",
    points=[
        models.PointStruct(
            id=1,
            payload={
                "color": "red",
            },
            vector=[0.9, 0.1, 0.1],
        ),
        models.PointStruct(
            id=2,
            payload={
                "color": "green",
            },
            vector=[0.1, 0.9, 0.1],
        ),
        models.PointStruct(
            id=3,
            payload={
                "color": "blue",
            },
            vector=[0.1, 0.1, 0.9],
        ),
    ],
)

```

```rust
use qdrant_client::qdrant::{PointStruct, UpsertPointsBuilder};
use qdrant_client::{Qdrant, Payload};
use serde_json::json;

let client = Qdrant::from_url("http://localhost:6334").build()?;

client
    .upsert_points(
        UpsertPointsBuilder::new(
            "{collection_name}",
            vec![
                PointStruct::new(
                    1,
                    vec![0.9, 0.1, 0.1],
                    Payload::try_from(json!(
                        {"color": "red"}
                    ))
                    .unwrap(),
                ),
                PointStruct::new(
                    2,
                    vec![0.1, 0.9, 0.1],
                    Payload::try_from(json!(
                        {"color": "green"}
                    ))
                    .unwrap(),
                ),
                PointStruct::new(
                    3,
                    vec![0.1, 0.1, 0.9],
                    Payload::try_from(json!(
                        {"color": "blue"}
                    ))
                    .unwrap(),
                ),
            ],
        )
        .wait(true),
    )
    .await?;

```

```java
import static io.qdrant.client.PointIdFactory.id;
import static io.qdrant.client.VectorFactory.vector;
import static io.qdrant.client.VectorsFactory.namedVectors;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import io.qdrant.client.QdrantClient;
import io.qdrant.client.QdrantGrpcClient;

import io.qdrant.client.grpc.Points.PointStruct;

QdrantClient client = new QdrantClient(
                QdrantGrpcClient.newBuilder("localhost", 6334, false).build());

client
    .upsertAsync(
        "{collection_name}",
        List.of(
            PointStruct.newBuilder()
                .setId(id(1))
                .setVectors(
                    namedVectors(
                        Map.of(
                            "image",
                            vector(List.of(0.9f, 0.1f, 0.1f, 0.2f)),
                            "text",
                            vector(List.of(0.4f, 0.7f, 0.1f, 0.8f, 0.1f, 0.1f, 0.9f, 0.2f)))))
                .build(),
            PointStruct.newBuilder()
                .setId(id(2))
                .setVectors(
                    namedVectors(
                        Map.of(
                            "image",
                            List.of(0.2f, 0.1f, 0.3f, 0.9f),
                            "text",
                            List.of(0.5f, 0.2f, 0.7f, 0.4f, 0.7f, 0.2f, 0.3f, 0.9f))))
                .build()))
    .get();

```

```typescript
import { QdrantClient } from "@qdrant/js-client-rest";

const client = new QdrantClient({ host: "localhost", port: 6333 });

client.upsert("{collection_name}", {
  points: [
    {
      id: 1,
      payload: { color: "red" },
      vector: [0.9, 0.1, 0.1],
    },
    {
      id: 2,
      payload: { color: "green" },
      vector: [0.1, 0.9, 0.1],
    },
    {
      id: 3,
      payload: { color: "blue" },
      vector: [0.1, 0.1, 0.9],
    },
  ],
});

```

```go
package client

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"

	"github.com/qdrant/go-client/qdrant"
)

func upsert() {
	client, err := qdrant.NewClient(&qdrant.Config{
		Host: "localhost",
		Port: 6334,
	})
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	response, err := client.Upsert(context.Background(), &qdrant.UpsertPoints{
		CollectionName: "{collection_name}",
		Points: []*qdrant.PointStruct{
			{
				Id:      qdrant.NewIDNum(1),
				Vectors: qdrant.NewVectors(0.9, 0.1, 0.1),
				Payload: qdrant.NewValueMap(map[string]any{
					"color": "red",
				}),
			},
			{
				Id:      qdrant.NewIDNum(2),
				Vectors: qdrant.NewVectors(0.1, 0.9, 0.1),
				Payload: qdrant.NewValueMap(map[string]any{
					"color": "green",
				}),
			},
			{
				Id:      qdrant.NewIDNum(3),
				Vectors: qdrant.NewVectors(0.1, 0.1, 0.9),
				Payload: qdrant.NewValueMap(map[string]any{
					"color": "blue",
				}),
			},
		},
	})
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	fmt.Println("Upsert status: ", response.GetStatus())
}

```

```csharp
using Qdrant.Client;
using Qdrant.Client.Grpc;

var client = new QdrantClient("localhost", 6334);

await client.UpsertAsync(
  collectionName: "{collection_name}",
  points: new List<PointStruct>
  {
    new()
    {
      Id = 1,
      Vectors = new[] { 0.9f, 0.1f, 0.1f },
      Payload = { ["city"] = "red" }
    },
    new()
    {
      Id = 2,
      Vectors = new[] { 0.1f, 0.9f, 0.1f },
      Payload = { ["city"] = "green" }
    },
    new()
    {
      Id = 3,
      Vectors = new[] { 0.1f, 0.1f, 0.9f },
      Payload = { ["city"] = "blue" }
    }
  }
);

```

```ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("http://localhost:6333/collections/collection_name/points")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)

request = Net::HTTP::Put.new(url)
request["api-key"] = '<apiKey>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"batch\": {\n    \"ids\": [\n      42\n    ],\n    \"vectors\": {}\n  }\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```

```php
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('PUT', 'http://localhost:6333/collections/collection_name/points', [
  'body' => '{
  "batch": {
    "ids": [
      42
    ],
    "vectors": {}
  }
}',
  'headers' => [
    'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
    'api-key' => '<apiKey>',
  ],
]);

echo $response->getBody();
```

```swift
import Foundation

let headers = [
  "api-key": "<apiKey>",
  "Content-Type": "application/json"
]
let parameters = ["batch": [
    "ids": [42],
    "vectors": []
  ]] as [String : Any]

let postData = JSONSerialization.data(withJSONObject: parameters, options: [])

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "http://localhost:6333/collections/collection_name/points")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "PUT"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers
request.httpBody = postData as Data

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error as Any)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()
```