Move bulk helpers' docs outside of streaming_bulk's docstring

docs/helpers.rst

@@ -7,12 +7,93 @@ Collection of simple helper functions that abstract some specifics or the raw
 API.
 
 
+Bulk helpers
+------------
+
+There are several helpers for the ``bulk`` API since it's requirement for
+specific formatting and other considerations can make it cumbersome if used directly.
+
+All bulk helpers accept an instance of ``Elasticsearch`` class and an iterable
+``actions`` (any iterable, can also be a generator, which is ideal in most
+cases since it will allow you to index large datasets without the need of
+loading them into memory).
+
+The items in the ``action`` iterable should be the documents we wish to index
+in several formats. The most common one is the same  as returned by
+:meth:`~elasticsearch.Elasticsearch.search`, for example:
+
+.. code:: python
+
+    {
+        '_index': 'index-name',
+        '_type': 'document',
+        '_id': 42,
+        '_parent': 5,
+        '_ttl': '1d',
+        '_source': {
+            "title": "Hello World!",
+            "body": "..."
+        }
+    }
+
+Alternatively, if `_source` is not present, it will pop all metadata fields
+from the doc and use the rest as the document data:
+
+.. code:: python
+
+    {
+        "_id": 42,
+        "_parent": 5,
+        "title": "Hello World!",
+        "body": "..."
+    }
+
+The :meth:`~elasticsearch.Elasticsearch.bulk` api accepts ``index``, ``create``,
+``delete``, and ``update`` actions. Use the ``_op_type`` field to specify an
+action (``_op_type`` defaults to ``index``):
+
+.. code:: python
+
+    {
+        '_op_type': 'delete',
+        '_index': 'index-name',
+        '_type': 'document',
+        '_id': 42,
+    }
+    {
+        '_op_type': 'update',
+        '_index': 'index-name',
+        '_type': 'document',
+        '_id': 42,
+        'doc': {'question': 'The life, universe and everything.'}
+    }
+
+
+.. note::
+
+    When reading raw json strings from a file, you can also pass them in
+    directly (without decoding to dicts first). In that case, however, you lose
+    the ability to specify anything (index, type, even id) on a per-record
+    basis, all documents will just be sent to elasticsearch to be indexed
+    as-is.
+
+
 .. py:module:: elasticsearch.helpers
 
 .. autofunction:: streaming_bulk
 
+.. autofunction:: parallel_bulk
+
 .. autofunction:: bulk
 
+
+Scan
+----
+
 .. autofunction:: scan
 
+
+Reindex
+-------
+
 .. autofunction:: reindex

elasticsearch/helpers/__init__.py

@@ -142,45 +142,6 @@ def streaming_bulk(client, actions, chunk_size=500, max_chunk_bytes=100 * 1014 *
     bulk that returns summary information about the bulk operation once the
     entire input is consumed and sent.
 
-    This function expects the action to be in the format as returned by
-    :meth:`~elasticsearch.Elasticsearch.search`, for example::
-
-        {
-            '_index': 'index-name',
-            '_type': 'document',
-            '_id': 42,
-            '_parent': 5,
-            '_ttl': '1d',
-            '_source': {
-                ...
-            }
-        }
-
-    Alternatively, if `_source` is not present, it will pop all metadata fields
-    from the doc and use the rest as the document data.
-
-    When reading raw json strings from a file, you can also pass them in. In
-    that case, however, you lose the ability to specify anything (index, type,
-    even id) on a per-record basis, all documents will just be sent to
-    elasticsearch to be indexed as-is.
-
-    The :meth:`~elasticsearch.Elasticsearch.bulk` api accepts `index`, `create`,
-    `delete`, and `update` actions. Use the `_op_type` field to specify an
-    action (`_op_type` defaults to `index`)::
-
-        {
-            '_op_type': 'delete',
-            '_index': 'index-name',
-            '_type': 'document',
-            '_id': 42,
-        }
-        {
-            '_op_type': 'update',
-            '_index': 'index-name',
-            '_type': 'document',
-            '_id': 42,
-            'doc': {'question': 'The life, universe and everything.'}
-        }
 
     :arg client: instance of :class:`~elasticsearch.Elasticsearch` to use
     :arg actions: iterable containing the actions to be executed
@@ -208,8 +169,8 @@ def bulk(client, actions, stats_only=False, **kwargs):
     information - number of successfully executed actions and either list of
     errors or number of errors if `stats_only` is set to `True`.
 
-    See :func:`~elasticsearch.helpers.streaming_bulk` for more information
+    See :func:`~elasticsearch.helpers.streaming_bulk` for more accepted
-    and accepted formats.
+    parameters
 
     :arg client: instance of :class:`~elasticsearch.Elasticsearch` to use
     :arg actions: iterator containing the actions
@@ -240,7 +201,7 @@ def parallel_bulk(client, actions, thread_count=4, chunk_size=500,
         max_chunk_bytes=100 * 1014 * 1024,
         expand_action_callback=expand_action, **kwargs):
     """
-    Parallel version of the bulk helper.
+    Parallel version of the bulk helper run in multiple threads at once.
 
     :arg client: instance of :class:`~elasticsearch.Elasticsearch` to use
     :arg actions: iterator containing the actions