Elasticsearch: If you create a mapping with the ID field pointing to a certain path, inserting two docs with the same ID should overwrite, instead of throwing an error. Unless you specify to "create" documents

id_path_overwrite.sh

#!/bin/bash

curl -XDELETE localhost:9200/test
curl -XPUT localhost:9200/test
curl -XPUT localhost:9200/test/test/_mapping -d '{
  "test": {
    "_id": {
      "path": "foo"
    }
  }
}'
echo
echo "should be OK"
curl -XPOST localhost:9200/test/test/ -d '{"foo": "bar"}'
echo
echo "should be OK again"
curl -XPOST localhost:9200/test/test/ -d '{"foo": "bar"}'
echo
echo '{ "index": { "_index": "test", "_type": "test"}}
{"foo": "bar"}' > /tmp/bla
echo
echo "bulks should be OK as well"
curl -XPOST localhost:9200/_bulk --data-binary @/tmp/bla
echo
echo
echo "This should fail, though"
curl -XPOST localhost:9200/test/test/?op_type=create -d '{"foo": "bar"}'
echo
echo "And bulk creates too"
echo '{ "create": { "_index": "test", "_type": "test"}}
{"foo": "bar"}' > /tmp/bla
curl -XPOST localhost:9200/_bulk --data-binary @/tmp/bla
echo