async function getLastUpdateDate()

in supporting-blog-content/automatically-updating-your-index-nodejs-azure/azure_index.js [18:42]

• 23 lines of code
• 5 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

async function getLastUpdateDate() {
  try {
    const response = await client.search({
      index: 'nasa-node-js',
      body: {
        size: 1,
        sort: [{ close_approach_date: { order: 'desc' } }],
        _source: ['close_approach_date']
      }
    });

    if (response.body && response.body.hits && response.body.hits.hits.length > 0) {
      return response.body.hits.hits[0]._source.close_approach_date;
    } else {
      // Default to one day ago if no records found
      const today = new Date();
      const lastWeek = new Date(today);
      lastWeek.setDate(today.getDate() - 1);
      return lastWeek.toISOString().split('T')[0];
    }
  } catch (error) {
    console.error('Error fetching last update date from Elasticsearch:', error);
    throw error;
  }
}