[[breaking-changes-2.0]] == Breaking changes in 2.0 This section discusses the changes that you need to be aware of when migrating your application to Elasticsearch 2.0. === Indices API The <> will, by default produce an error response if a requested index does not exist. This change brings the defaults for this API in line with the other Indices APIs. The <> options can be used on a request to change this behavior `GetIndexRequest.features()` now returns an array of Feature Enums instead of an array of String values. The following deprecated methods have been removed: * `GetIndexRequest.addFeatures(String[])` - Please use `GetIndexRequest.addFeatures(Feature[])` instead * `GetIndexRequest.features(String[])` - Please use `GetIndexRequest.features(Feature[])` instead * `GetIndexRequestBuilder.addFeatures(String[])` - Please use `GetIndexRequestBuilder.addFeatures(Feature[])` instead * `GetIndexRequestBuilder.setFeatures(String[])` - Please use `GetIndexRequestBuilder.setFeatures(Feature[])` instead === Partial fields Partial fields were deprecated since 1.0.0beta1 in favor of <>. === More Like This Field The More Like This Field query has been removed in favor of the <> restrained set to a specific `field`. === Routing The default hash function that is used for routing has been changed from djb2 to murmur3. This change should be transparent unless you relied on very specific properties of djb2. This will help ensure a better balance of the document counts between shards. In addition, the following node settings related to routing have been deprecated: [horizontal] `cluster.routing.operation.hash.type`:: This was an undocumented setting that allowed to configure which hash function to use for routing. `murmur3` is now enforced on new indices. `cluster.routing.operation.use_type`:: This was an undocumented setting that allowed to take the `_type` of the document into account when computing its shard (default: `false`). `false` is now enforced on new indices. === Store The `memory` / `ram` store (`index.store.type`) option was removed in Elasticsearch 2.0. === Term Vectors API Usage of `/_termvector` is deprecated, and replaced in favor of `/_termvectors`. === Script fields Script fields in 1.x were only returned as a single value. So even if the return value of a script used to be list, it would be returned as an array containing a single value that is a list too, such as: [source,json] --------------- "fields": { "my_field": [ [ "v1", "v2" ] ] } --------------- In elasticsearch 2.x, scripts that return a list of values are considered as multivalued fields. So the same example would return the following response, with values in a single array. [source,json] --------------- "fields": { "my_field": [ "v1", "v2" ] } --------------- === Main API Previously, calling `GET /` was giving back the http status code within the json response in addition to the actual HTTP status code. We removed `status` field in json response. === Java API Some query builders have been removed or renamed: * `commonTerms(...)` renamed with `commonTermsQuery(...)` * `queryString(...)` renamed with `queryStringQuery(...)` * `simpleQueryString(...)` renamed with `simpleQueryStringQuery(...)` * `textPhrase(...)` removed * `textPhrasePrefix(...)` removed * `textPhrasePrefixQuery(...)` removed * `filtered(...)` removed. Use `filteredQuery(...)` instead. * `inQuery(...)` removed. ==== Aggregations The `date_histogram` aggregation now returns a `Histogram` object in the response, and the `DateHistogram` class has been removed. Similarly the `date_range`, `ipv4_range`, and `geo_distance` aggregations all return a `Range` object in the response, and the `IPV4Range`, `DateRange`, and `GeoDistance` classes have been removed. The motivation for this is to have a single response API for the Range and Histogram aggregations regardless of the type of data being queried. To support this some changes were made in the `MultiBucketAggregation` interface which applies to all bucket aggregations: * The `getKey()` method now returns `Object` instead of `String`. The actual object type returned depends on the type of aggregation requested (e.g. the `date_histogram` will return a `DateTime` object for this method whereas a `histogram` will return a `Number`). * A `getKeyAsString()` method has been added to return the String representation of the key. * All other `getKeyAsX()` methods have been removed. * The `getBucketAsKey(String)` methods have been removed on all aggregations except the `filters` and `terms` aggregations. === Terms filter lookup caching The terms filter lookup mechanism does not support the `cache` option anymore and relies on the filesystem cache instead. If the lookup index is not too large, it is recommended to make it replicated to all nodes by setting `index.auto_expand_replicas: 0-all` in order to remove the network overhead as well. === Parent parameter on update request The `parent` parameter has been removed from the update request. Before 2.x it just set the routing parameter. The `routing` setting should be used instead. The `parent` setting was confusing, because it had the impression that the parent a child documents points to can be changed but this is not true. ==== Delete by query The meaning of the `_shards` headers in the delete by query response has changed. Before version 2.0 the `total`, `successful` and `failed` fields in the header are based on the number of primary shards. The failures on replica shards aren't being kept track of. From version 2.0 the stats in the `_shards` header are based on all shards of an index. The http status code is left unchanged and is only based on failures that occurred while executing on primary shards. === Mappings The setting `index.mapping.allow_type_wrapper` has been removed. Documents should always be sent without the type as the root element.