Add mappings and bulk to quickstart page

docs/sphinx/quickstart.rst

@@ -41,6 +41,11 @@ You can generate an API key on the **Management** page under Security.
 
 .. image:: ../guide/images/create-api-key.png
 
+Confirm that the connection was successful.
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+ print(client.info())
 
 Using the client
 ----------------
@@ -49,6 +54,29 @@ Time to use Elasticsearch! This section walks you through the most important
 operations of Elasticsearch. The following examples assume that the Python 
 client was instantiated as above.
 
+Create a mapping for your index
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Set the expected types of your features.
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+ mappings = {
+ "properties": {
+ "foo": {
+ "type" : "text"
+ },
+ "bar" : {
+ "type" : "text",
+ "fields" : {
+ "keyword" : {
+ "type" : "keyword",
+ "ignore_above" : 256
+ }
+ }
+ }
+ }
+ }
 
 Creating an index
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
@@ -57,7 +85,7 @@ This is how you create the `my_index` index:
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
- client.indices.create(index="my_index")
+ client.indices.create(index="my_index", mappings = mappings)
 
 
 Indexing documents
@@ -76,6 +104,19 @@ This indexes a document with the index API:
  },
  )
 
+You can also index multiple documents at once with the bulk helper function:
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+ from elasticsearch import helpers
+
+ def generate_docs(documents, index_name):
+ for i, document in enumerate(documents):
+ yield dict(_index=index_name, _id=f"{i}", _source=document)
+
+ helpers.bulk(client, generate_docs(books, index_name))
+
+These helpers are the recommended simple and streamlined way to abstract otherwise complicated and verbose functions such as `client.bulk`.
 
 Getting documents
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^