Basic sketch for renaming an index in Elasticsearch

gistfile1.sh

# create an index with some state (in this case, a mapping)
curl -X POST localhost:9200/test-original -d '{"mappings":{"wine":{"properties":{"designation":{"type":"string"},"full_name":{"type":"string"},"winery":{"type":"string"},"style":{"index":"no","type":"string"},"vintage":{"index":"no","type":"string"},"restaurant_ids":{"index":"no","type":"string"},"appellation":{"type":"string"},"vineyard_name":{"type":"string"},"variety_id":{"index":"no","type":"string"},"country":{"type":"string"}}}}}'
# => {"ok":true,"acknowledged":true}

# verify the mapping
curl localhost:9200/test-original/_mapping 
# => {"test-original":{"wine":{"properties":{"appellation":{"type":"string"},"country":{"type":"string"},"designation":{"type":"string"},"full_name":{"type":"string"},"restaurant_ids":{"type":"string","index":"no"},"style":{"type":"string","index":"no"},"variety_id":{"type":"string","index":"no"},"vineyard_name":{"type":"string"},"vintage":{"type":"string","index":"no"},"winery":{"type":"string"}}}}}

# copy the index directory to rename it
rsync -av test-original/ test-renamed          
# => building file list ... done
#    created directory test-renamed
#    [...snip...]
#    sent 3653 bytes  received 834 bytes  8974.00 bytes/sec
#    total size is 1033  speedup is 0.23

# check the new index and its mapping -- fail because elasticsearch hasn't imported it yet
curl localhost:9200/test-renamed/_mapping
# => {"error":"IndexMissingException[[test-renamed] missing]","status":404}

# restart elasticsearch
launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.elasticsearch.plist
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.elasticsearch.plist

# check the new index and its mapping -- success
curl localhost:9200/test-renamed/_mapping                                
# => {"test-renamed":{"wine":{"properties":{"appellation":{"type":"string"},"country":{"type":"string"},"designation":{"type":"string"},"full_name":{"type":"string"},"restaurant_ids":{"type":"string","index":"no"},"style":{"type":"string","index":"no"},"variety_id":{"type":"string","index":"no"},"vineyard_name":{"type":"string"},"vintage":{"type":"string","index":"no"},"winery":{"type":"string"}}}}}

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