Auto formatting

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Console can help you format requests. Select one or more requests that you want to format, click the action icon (wrench), and select Auto indent.

For example, you might have a request that is formatted like this:

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Console adjusts the JSON body of the request to apply the indents.

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If you select Auto indent on a request that is already well formatted, Console collapses the request body to a single line per document. This is helpful when working with Elasticsearch’s bulk APIs.