9.0 nuget version with 8.15.4 ES instance - not working Indices.Exists method

[kplazinski]

Hello, is new version of nuget should work with 8.15.4 ES instance?
It seems that there is some problem with calling Exists method on the index - I always got the error 400 (doesn't matter if index exists or not), so for example this code always show this error:

var settings = new ElasticsearchClientSettings(new Uri("http://localhost:9200"));
var client = new ElasticsearchClient(settings);
var output = client.Indices.Exists("anything");

[EDIT]
as a workaround I see that when sending this header it's working fine:

var nvc = new System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection
{
   { "Accept", "application/vnd.elasticsearch+json;compatible-with=8" }
};
GlobalHeaders(nvc);

[flobernd]

Hi @kplazinski, the 9.x versions of the client are indeed not meant to be used with 8.x clusters.

The workaround should technically work (for now), but please note that we don't officially support this scenario.

[tudordumitriu]

Hi @kplazinski
Nice hack, is it still working for you?
Because once I added Accept it got pass that but now it complains about Content-Type and this hack doesn't seem to overwrite it
var backwordCompatibilityHackNVC= new System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection
{
{ "Accept", "application/vnd.elasticsearch+json;compatible-with=8" }, //works
{ "Content-Type", "application/vnd.elasticsearch+json;compatible-with=8" } //doesn't work
};

[kplazinski]

it works in aliases but other calls are unfortunately not working