From c5f91faaad1ec7909ff865c22ce0b5999b8b6304 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Honza=20Kr=C3=A1l?= <honza.kral@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 16:19:23 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Added docs for request_timeout

---
 docs/api.rst | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/api.rst b/docs/api.rst
index 44751bd0..70bcb695 100644
--- a/docs/api.rst
+++ b/docs/api.rst
@@ -26,6 +26,13 @@ them::
     # ignore 404 and 400
     es.indices.delete(index='test-index', ignore=[400, 404])
 
+You can also specify ``request_timeout`` (float) as part of any API call, this
+value will get passed to the ``perform_request`` method of the connection
+class::
+
+    # only wait for 1 second, regardless of the client's default
+    es.cluster.health(wait_for_status='yellow', request_timeout=1)
+
 .. note::
    
     for compatibility with the Python ecosystem we use ``from_`` instead of