Elasticsearch “no requests added” Bulk API Error

Question

Trying to get Bulk Update to work on ES 1.0.1.

I am within Postman posting the following:

URL POST or PUT to

Answer 1

If you're using cURL, you must have a blank line at the end of your bulk items and you must use --data-binary (instead of plain -d). For example, suppose you have a file called bulk that has:

{ "index" : { "_id" : 1 } }
{ "accounts" : ["hillary", "sidney"]}
{ "index" : { "_id" : 2 } }
{ "accounts" : ["hillary", "donald"]}
{ "index" : { "_id" : 3 } }
{ "accounts" : ["vladimir", "donald"]}

Ensure the file is terminated by a blank line, then post with cURL:

curl -i -XPOST -H'content-type: application/json' 'localhost:9200/emails/message/_bulk?refresh&pretty' --data-binary @bulk