Exists as separate endpoint

rest-api-spec/api/exists.json

@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+{
+  "exists": {
+    "documentation": "http://elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/api/get/",
+    "methods": ["HEAD"],
+    "url": {
+      "path": "/{index}/{type}/{id}",
+      "paths": ["/{index}/{type}/{id}"],
+      "parts": {
+        "id": {
+          "type" : "string",
+          "required" : true,
+          "description" : "The document ID"
+        },
+        "index": {
+          "type" : "string",
+          "required" : true,
+          "description" : "The name of the index"
+        },
+        "type": {
+          "type" : "string",
+          "required" : true,
+          "description" : "The type of the document (use `_all` to fetch the first document matching the ID across all types)"
+        }
+      },
+      "params": {
+        "parent": {
+          "type" : "string",
+          "description" : "The ID of the parent document"
+        },
+        "preference": {
+          "type" : "string",
+          "description" : "Specify the shards the operation should be performed on (default: random shard)"
+        },
+        "realtime": {
+          "type" : "boolean",
+          "description" : "Specify whether to perform the operation in realtime or search mode"
+        },
+        "refresh": {
+          "type" : "boolean",
+          "description" : "Refresh the shard containing the document before performing the operation"
+        },
+        "routing": {
+          "type" : "string",
+          "description" : "Specific routing value"
+        }
+      }
+    },
+    "body": null
+  }
+}

rest-api-spec/api/get.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "get": {
     "documentation": "http://elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/api/get/",
-    "methods": ["GET", "HEAD", "POST"],
+    "methods": ["GET"],
     "url": {
       "path": "/{index}/{type}/{id}",
       "paths": ["/{index}/{type}/{id}", "/{index}/{type}/{id}/_source"],