Reindex api op_type options

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In the docs for the reindex api (https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/2.3/docs-reindex.html) there is a reference to an option called "op_type" which is always the "create" in the examples. Are there other options? if so, what are they?

thanks!

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The default is actually "index". Reindex supports blindly bumping the documents version number (default), only changing the document if the source document's version number is higher (version_type=external) and only creating missing documents (op_type=create). This mirrors the index API which supports those three options with the same parameters. The index API requires you to send the version if using version_type=external but reindex handles that for you, piping the version of the matching document through.

The index API also supports version_type=internal and specifying a version which will bump the version of the document you are writing only if the version matches the one you send like traditional optimistic concurrency control. That is what update-by-query uses.

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ok - thanks!