indices.create doesn't support include_type_name request parameter

[dliappis]

indices.create supports wait_for_active_shards however, the recent Elasticsearch commit: elastic/elasticsearch#38270 forces the use of ?include_type_name=true to allow use of the _doc type in 7.0. Types are deprecated in 7.0 and will be completely removed in 8.0.

So for users sticking to _doc for the lifetime of 7.0, it's necessary to pass this query/parameter.

It'd be great if support for this would be added. To avoid having to follow up future parameters, would it make sense to just allow passing any arbitrary parameters that the user elects to?

[dliappis]

To avoid having to follow up future parameters, would it make sense to just allow passing any arbitrary parameters that the user elects to?

To close this, specifying params={} allows passing arbitrary parameters -- serialization needs to be done by the user though, so best used only for strings. Thanks @honzakral .

[apeters]

This parameter (include_type_name) doesn't seem to be documented like the others (eg: wait_for_active_shards). Should it be?
I know this issue is closed, but it seemed like the most appropriate place for it.)