Document API changes

The ?refresh request parameter used to accept any value other than false, 0, off, and no to mean "make the changes from this request visible for search immediately." Now it only accepts ?refresh and ?refresh=true to mean that. You can set it to ?refresh=false and the request will take no refresh-related action. The same is true if you leave refresh off of the url entirely. If you add ?refresh=wait_for Elasticsearch will wait for the changes to become visible before replying to the request but won’t take any immediate refresh related action. See ?refresh.

The created field has been deprecated in the Index API. It now returns result, returning "result": "created" when it created a document and "result": "updated" when it updated the document. This is also true for index bulk operations.

The found field has been deprecated in the Delete API. It now returns result, returning "result": "deleted" when it deleted a document and "result": "noop" when it didn’t found the document. This is also true for index bulk operations.

Before 5.0.0 _reindex and _update_by_query only retried bulk failures so they used the following response format:

{
   ...
   "retries": 10
   ...
}

Where retries counts the number of bulk retries. Now they retry on search failures as well and use this response format:

{
   ...
   "retries": {
     "bulk": 10,
     "search": 1
   }
   ...
}

Where bulk counts the number of bulk retries and search counts the number of search retries.

As of 5.0.0 the get API will issue a refresh if the requested document has been changed since the last refresh but the change hasn’t been refreshed yet. This will also make all other changes visible immediately. This can have an impact on performance if the same document is updated very frequently using a read modify update pattern since it might create many small segments. This behavior can be disabled by passing realtime=false to the get request.

The fields field has been renamed to stored_fields

The fields field has been renamed to stored_fields

The fields field has been deprecated. You should use _source to load the field from _source.

The fields field has been deprecated. You should use _source to load the field from _source.