Implementation of PUT and DELETE in pycurl

Implementation of PUT and DELETE in pycurl

Through this post explaining about the usage of PUT and DELETE in pycurl.

import pycurl
import json

"""

Here is the sample example of curl which is using PUT and DELETE

curl -XPUT localhost:9200/tweets/tweet/1 -d '
{
user: "Test User",
message: "Test Message",
postDate: "20130201T02:00:00",
"mappings" : {
    "tweet" : {
        "_source" : {"enabled" : false}
    }
}
}
'

curl -XDELETE 'http://localhost:9200/twitter/tweet/1'

"""
page_index = {
user: "Test User",
message: "Test Message",
postDate: "20130201T02:00:00",
"mappings" : {
    "tweet" : {
        "_source" : {"enabled" : false}
    }
}
}

c = pycurl.Curl()

# Remove Index if alreday exists

c.setopt(pycurl.URL, "http://localhost:9200/twitter")
c.setopt(pycurl.CUSTOMREQUEST, "DELETE")

c.perform()
 

# Create new index

c.setopt(pycurl.URL, "http://localhost:9200/twitter")

c.setopt(pycurl.CUSTOMREQUEST, "PUT")
c.setopt(pycurl.POST, 1)
c.setopt(pycurl.POSTFIELDS, '%s' % json.dumps(page_index ))

c.perform()