I've since been informed this is a known issue and a bug has been raised for it, so a fix is on the way.
On 6 January 2015 at 07:57, Mark Walkom <markwal...@gmail.com> wrote: > It'd be great if you could raise this as an issue on github for this > behaviour to be checked - https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch > > On 6 January 2015 at 00:06, Paul Scott <p...@duedil.com> wrote: > >> Regarding the behaviour of Sense to automatically choose POST regardless >> of the user writing GET: >> >> I was recently rewriting a search query I had written in the Sense UI >> from a search query to a request for a raw document by ID, using the GET >> API. In the process of changing from >> >> GET /index/type/_search >> { ... } >> >> >> to >> >> GET /index/type/id >> >> >> I submitted >> >> GET /index/type/id >> {... } >> >> >> which Sense helpfully submitted as a POST request, over-writing the >> document with the search query. In production. >> >> To say that this behaviour was unexpected and unhelpful would be an >> understatement. I would consider it irresponsible and unsafe, and I highly >> recommend the behaviour be disabled. >> >> Please try to read past my obvious irritation and the part of this >> mistake which falls on my head, to the part in this mistake that the Sense >> UI played too. >> >> All the best, >> >> Paul >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "elasticsearch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/f2588751-a008-4b59-9041-b63c098580dd%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/f2588751-a008-4b59-9041-b63c098580dd%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEYi1X-Fxju8SodKDp_LuaK8WXfQuLjtgK2RGD%3DbOkQ2wTi9iQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
