Hardcoded request type GET

[vglafirov]

Search API does not support POST requests.
_, data = self.transport.perform_request('GET', _make_path(index, doc_type, '_search')
This leads to wrong results when elasticsearch is behind loadbalancer or proxy. Usually GET does not contains request body.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/978061/http-get-with-request-body
Please add POST to search API.

[honzakral]

This is supported by specifying send_get_body_as='POST' when constructing the Elasticsearch instance.

See http://elasticsearch-py.readthedocs.org/en/latest/connection.html#transport for more details.

[vglafirov]

Ah. Great, thanks