Add content-type default headers with application/json

elasticsearch/__init__.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 from __future__ import absolute_import
 
-VERSION = (5, 1, 0)
+VERSION = (5, 2, 0, 'dev')
 __version__ = VERSION
 __versionstr__ = '.'.join(map(str, VERSION))
 

elasticsearch/connection/http_requests.py

@@ -34,7 +34,8 @@ class RequestsHttpConnection(Connection):
 
         super(RequestsHttpConnection, self).__init__(host=host, port=port, **kwargs)
         self.session = requests.Session()
-        self.session.headers = headers
+        self.session.headers = headers or {}
+        self.session.headers.setdefault('content-type', 'application/json')
         if http_auth is not None:
             if isinstance(http_auth, (tuple, list)):
                 http_auth = tuple(http_auth)

elasticsearch/connection/http_urllib3.py

@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ class Urllib3HttpConnection(Connection):
             for k in headers:
                 self.headers[k.lower()] = headers[k]
 
+        self.headers.setdefault('content-type', 'application/json')
         ca_certs = CA_CERTS if ca_certs is None else ca_certs
         pool_class = urllib3.HTTPConnectionPool
         kw = {}