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Indices existsedit
Used to check if the index (indices) exists or not.
Examplesedit
Fluent Syntaxedit
var result = client.IndexExists(i => i.Index("myindex"));
Object Initializer Syntaxedit
var request = new IndexExistsRequest("myindex");
var result = client.IndexExists(request);
Handling the Index Exists responseedit
result in the above examples is an IExistsResponse which contains a bool property Exists.
One thing to note is that if an index does not exist, Elasticsearch will return a 404.
In this case, a 404 is a valid response and thus result.IsValid will be true.