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Generic Parametersedit

By default, all api methods accept the following parameters. They are omitted from the param lists of each method for brevity.

method

String — The HTTP method to use for this request. All of the API methods have their own default.

body

String, Anything — The body to send along with this request. If the body is a string it will be passed along as is, otherwise it is passed to the serializer and converted to either JSON or a newline separated list of JSON objects based on the API method.

the bodybuilder, elastic-builder or elastic.js libraries can be used to make building request bodies simpler.

ignore

Number, Number[] — HTTP status codes which should not be considered errors for this request.

filterPath

String|String[] — Starting in elasticsearch 1.6 the filterPath parameter can be passed to any API to filter its reponse values. See the elasticsearch response filtering docs for more information.
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