We are looking into a Python library Elasticsearch Python Client , and its official online document contains the below example for ingesting data into Elastic. We hope to make the ingest action idempotent, so we wonder whether the library's index() method uses PUT or POST. Please also point out if …

See Index API | Elasticsearch Guide [8.11] | Elastic ; PUT /<target>/_doc/<_id> POST /<target>/_doc/ PUT /<target>/_create/<_id> POST /<target>/_create/<_id> You can see that a PUT is when you want to specify an _id, and a POST is when you want to auto create one, which follows the W3 referenc…

About the `index()` method of `Elasticsearch Python Client` library, is it using PUT or POST?

Elastic Stack Elasticsearch

system (system) Closed July 11, 2023, 11:35pm 3

This topic was automatically closed 28 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.

Topic		Replies	Views
PUT vs POST when adding documents in elastic search Elasticsearch	4	2220	July 24, 2019
What is the difference between POST an PUT in the ElasticSearch API? Elasticsearch	11	36687	July 5, 2017
When to use PUT versus POST? Elasticsearch	5	12420	January 9, 2017
NEST client always using PUT http method instead of POST Elasticsearch language-clients	1	344	February 16, 2021
Need some clarity about ElasticSearch (GET, POST & PUT) Elasticsearch	2	365	July 6, 2017

About the `index()` method of `Elasticsearch Python Client` library, is it using PUT or POST?

Related topics