Ingestion API now always updates regardless of document updated_at (#786)

backend/danswer/indexing/indexing_pipeline.py

@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ def _indexing_pipeline(
     document_index: DocumentIndex,
     documents: list[Document],
     index_attempt_metadata: IndexAttemptMetadata,
+    ignore_time_skip: bool = False,
 ) -> tuple[int, int]:
     """Takes different pieces of the indexing pipeline and applies it to a batch of documents
     Note that the documents should already be batched at this point so that it does not inflate the
@@ -87,14 +88,18 @@ def _indexing_pipeline(
         }
 
         updatable_docs: list[Document] = []
-        for doc in documents:
-            if (
-                doc.id in id_update_time_map
-                and doc.doc_updated_at
-                and doc.doc_updated_at <= id_update_time_map[doc.id]
-            ):
-                continue
-            updatable_docs.append(doc)
+        if ignore_time_skip:
+            updatable_docs = documents
+        else:
+            for doc in documents:
+                if (
+                    doc.id in id_update_time_map
+                    and doc.doc_updated_at
+                    and doc.doc_updated_at <= id_update_time_map[doc.id]
+                ):
+                    continue
+                updatable_docs.append(doc)
+
         updatable_ids = [doc.id for doc in updatable_docs]
 
         # Acquires a lock on the documents so that no other process can modify them
@@ -175,6 +180,7 @@ def build_indexing_pipeline(
     chunker: Chunker | None = None,
     embedder: Embedder | None = None,
     document_index: DocumentIndex | None = None,
+    ignore_time_skip: bool = False,
 ) -> IndexingPipelineProtocol:
     """Builds a pipline which takes in a list (batch) of docs and indexes them."""
     chunker = chunker or DefaultChunker()
@@ -188,4 +194,5 @@ def build_indexing_pipeline(
         chunker=chunker,
         embedder=embedder,
         document_index=document_index,
+        ignore_time_skip=ignore_time_skip,
     )

backend/danswer/server/danswer_api.py

@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ def document_ingestion(
     if document.source == DocumentSource.INGESTION_API:
         document.source = DocumentSource.FILE
 
-    indexing_pipeline = build_indexing_pipeline()
+    indexing_pipeline = build_indexing_pipeline(ignore_time_skip=True)
 
     new_doc, chunks = indexing_pipeline(
         documents=[document],