Search changes

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Partial fields

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Partial fields have been removed in favor of source filtering.

search_type=count deprecated

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The count search type has been deprecated. All benefits from this search type can now be achieved by using the (default) query_then_fetch search type and setting size to 0.

The count api internally uses the search api

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The count api is now a shortcut to the search api with size set to 0. As a result, a total failure will result in an exception being returned rather than a normal response with count set to 0 and shard failures.

All stored meta-fields returned by default

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Previously, meta-fields like _routing, _timestamp, etc would only be included in the search results if specifically requested with the fields parameter. Now, all meta-fields which have stored values will be returned by default. Additionally, they are now returned at the top level (along with _index, _type, and _id) instead of in the fields element.

For instance, the following request:

GET /my_index/_search?fields=foo

might return:

{
   [...]
   "hits": {
      "total": 1,
      "max_score": 1,
      "hits": [
         {
            "_index":     "my_index",
            "_type":      "my_type",
            "_id":        "1",
            "_score":     1,
            "_timestamp": 10000000, 
            "fields": {
              "foo" : [ "bar" ]
            }
         }
      ]
   }
}

The _timestamp is returned by default, and at the top level.

Script fields

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Script fields in 1.x were only returned as a single value. Even if the return value of a script was a list, it would be returned as an array containing an array:

"fields": {
  "my_field": [
    [
      "v1",
      "v2"
    ]
  ]
}

In elasticsearch 2.0, scripts that return a list of values are treated as multivalued fields. The same example would return the following response, with values in a single array.

"fields": {
  "my_field": [
    "v1",
    "v2"
  ]
}

Timezone for date field

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Specifying the time_zone parameter in queries or aggregations on fields of type date must now be either an ISO 8601 UTC offset, or a timezone id. For example, the value +1:00 must now be written as +01:00.

Only highlight queried fields

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The default value for the require_field_match option has changed from false to true, meaning that the highlighters will, by default, only take the fields that were queried into account.

This means that, when querying the _all field, trying to highlight on any field other than _all will produce no highlighted snippets. Querying the same fields that need to be highlighted is the cleaner solution to get highlighted snippets back. Otherwise require_field_match option can be set to false to ignore field names completely when highlighting.

The postings highlighter doesn’t support the require_field_match option anymore, it will only highlight fields that were queried.

Postings highlighter doesn’t support match_phrase_prefix

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The match query with type set to phrase_prefix (or the match_phrase_prefix query) is not supported by the postings highlighter. No highlighted snippets will be returned.