I created a quite complicated request to ES (I send it via curl), so I wanted to add a bit of documentation to it. I read that JSON does not allow comments, but I put a comment of type /* ... */ inside the request and it succeeded. Can I assume that ES allows such comments inside JSON request? I'm…

I would not assume that Elasticsearch allows comments inside JSON requests. As you mentioned, the JSON spec does not allow comments and I am surprised that it worked in your test to be honest. Its not something that is tested and not something we explicitly support so it could stop working at any ti…

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