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Types Exists

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Types Exists

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Used to check if a type/types exists in an index/indices.

curl -XHEAD -i 'http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet'

The HTTP status code indicates if the type exists or not. A 404 means it does not exist, and 200 means it does.

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