From 3e4e6ba43072950061bdeb45c5e4b8d3bfff1b0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel <dmg.lab@outlook.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 15:54:56 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] use GET method for count

as documented in the Elasticsearch API reference
---
 elasticsearch/client/__init__.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/elasticsearch/client/__init__.py b/elasticsearch/client/__init__.py
index 0efc9dc8..38f22465 100644
--- a/elasticsearch/client/__init__.py
+++ b/elasticsearch/client/__init__.py
@@ -741,7 +741,7 @@ class Elasticsearch(object):
         if doc_type and not index:
             index = '_all'
 
-        _, data = self.transport.perform_request('POST', _make_path(index,
+        _, data = self.transport.perform_request('GET', _make_path(index,
             doc_type, '_count'), params=params, body=body)
         return data