Is there a real difference between POST and PUT in the ElasticSearch API? When I look at documentation such as this , it looks like they can be substituted for each other. I ask because I write an application in which, under certain circumstances, user input is supposed to be put in ElasticSearch, a…

What is the difference between POST an PUT in the ElasticSearch API?

dadoonet (David Pilato) January 25, 2017, 7:38am 12

@kpandran Open a new thread and provide exactly what you are doing.

Read the following as an example of what you should provide:

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