An example of request definitions in external files.

data

{ "index" : { "_index" : "myindex", "_type" : "document", "_id" : "1" } }
{ "title" : "Jumping High" }
{ "index" : { "_index" : "myindex", "_type" : "document", "_id" : "2" } }
{ "title" : "Diving Deeper" }

index.sh

curl -X DELETE localhost:9200/myindex

curl -X POST localhost:9200/myindex --data @settings.json

curl -X POST localhost:9200/myindex/_bulk?refresh --data-binary @data

curl localhost:9200/myindex/_search?pretty -d '{
  "query" : {
    "match" : {
      "title" : "jump"
    }
  }
}'

settings.json

{
  "settings" : {
    "index" : {
      "number_of_shards" : 1
    }
  },
  "mappings" : {
    "document" : {
      "properties" : {
        "title" : {
          "type" : "string", "analyzer" : "snowball"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

where we store settings.json file?