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How do you perform CRUD operations on documents?

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Create/Index a document:

PUT /users/_doc/1
{
  "name": "John Doe",
  "email": "john@example.com",
  "age": 30
}

Read/Get a document:

GET /users/_doc/1

Update a document:

POST /users/_update/1
{
  "doc": {
    "age": 31
  }
}

Delete a document:

DELETE /users/_doc/1

Bulk operations:

POST /_bulk
{"index": {"_index": "users", "_id": "1"}}
{"name": "Alice", "age": 25}
{"index": {"_index": "users", "_id": "2"}}
{"name": "Bob", "age": 30}
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