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== Breaking changes coming from the old client
If you were already using the previous version of this client --i.e. the one you used to install with `npm install elasticsearch`-- you will encounter some breaking changes.
=== Dont panic!
Every breaking change was carefully weighed, and each is justified. Furthermore, the new codebase has been rewritten with modern JavaScript and has been carefully designed to be easy to maintain.
=== Breaking changes
* Minimum supported version of Node.js is `v6`.
* Everything has been rewritten using ES6 classes to help users extend the defaults more easily.
* There is no longer an integrated logger. The client now is an event emitter that emits the following events: `request`, `response`, and `error`.
* The code is no longer shipped with all the versions of the API, but only that of the packages major version, This means that if you are using Elasticsearch `v6`, you will be required to install `@elastic/elasticsearch@6`, and so on.
* The internals are completely different, so if you used to tweak them a lot, you will need to refactor your code. The public API should be almost the same.
* No more browser support, for that will be distributed via another module, `@elastic/elasticsearch-browser`. This module is intended for Node.js only.
* The returned value of an API call will no longer be the `body`, `statusCode`, and `headers` for callbacks and just the `body` for promises. The new returned value will be a unique object containing the `body`, `statusCode`, `headers`, `warnings`, and `meta`, for both callback and promises.
[source,js]
----
// before
const body = await client.search({
index: 'my-index',
body: { foo: 'bar' }
})
client.search({
index: 'my-index',
body: { foo: 'bar' }
}, (err, body, statusCode, headers) => {
if (err) console.log(err)
})
// after
const { body, statusCode, headers, warnings } = await client.search({
index: 'my-index',
body: { foo: 'bar' }
})
client.search({
index: 'my-index',
body: { foo: 'bar' }
}, (err, { body, statusCode, headers, warnings }) => {
if (err) console.log(err)
})
----
* Errors: there is no longer a custom error class for every HTTP status code (such as `BadRequest` or `NotFound`). There is instead a single `ResponseError`. Each error class has been renamed, and now each is suffixed with `Error` at the end.
* Errors that have been removed: `RequestTypeError`, `Generic`, and all the status code specific errors (such as `BadRequest` or `NotFound`).
* Errors that have been added: `ConfigurationError` (in case of bad configurations) and `ResponseError`, which contains all the data you may need to handle the specific error, such as `statusCode`, `headers`, `body`, and `message`.
* Errors that has been renamed:
** `RequestTimeout` (408 statusCode) => `TimeoutError`
** `ConnectionFault` => `ConnectionError`
** `NoConnections` => `NoLivingConnectionsError`
** `Serialization` => `SerializationError`
** `Serialization` => `DeserializationError`
* You must specify the port number in the configuration. In the previous version you can specify the host and port in a variety of ways, with the new client there is only one via the `node` parameter.
* The `plugins` option has been removed, if you want to extend the client now you should use the `client.extend` API.
[source,js]
----
// before
const { Client } = require('elasticsearch')
const client = new Client({ plugins: [...] })
// after
const { Client } = require('@elastic/elasticsearch')
const client = new Client({ ... })
client.extend(...)
----
* There is a clear distinction between the API related parameters and the client related configurations, the parameters `ignore`, `headers`, `requestTimeout` and `maxRetries` are no longer part of the API object, and you should specify them in a second option object.
[source,js]
----
// before
const body = await client.search({
index: 'my-index',
body: { foo: 'bar' },
ignore: [404]
})
client.search({
index: 'my-index',
body: { foo: 'bar' },
ignore: [404]
}, (err, body, statusCode, headers) => {
if (err) console.log(err)
})
// after
const { body, statusCode, headers, warnings } = await client.search({
index: 'my-index',
body: { foo: 'bar' }
}, {
ignore: [404]
})
client.search({
index: 'my-index',
body: { foo: 'bar' }
}, {
ignore: [404]
}, (err, { body, statusCode, headers, warnings }) => {
if (err) console.log(err)
})
----
* The `transport.request` method will no longer accept the `query` key, but the `querystring` key instead (which can be a string or an object), furthermore, you need to send a bulk-like request, instead of the `body` key, you should use the `bulkBody` key. Also in this method, the client specific parameters should be passed as a second object.
[source,js]
----
// before
const body = await client.transport.request({
method: 'GET',
path: '/my-index/_search',
body: { foo: 'bar' },
query: { bar: 'baz' }
ignore: [404]
})
client.transport.request({
method: 'GET',
path: '/my-index/_search',
body: { foo: 'bar' },
query: { bar: 'baz' }
ignore: [404]
}, (err, body, statusCode, headers) => {
if (err) console.log(err)
})
// after
const { body, statusCode, headers, warnings } = await client.transport.request({
method: 'GET',
path: '/my-index/_search',
body: { foo: 'bar' },
querystring: { bar: 'baz' }
}, {
ignore: [404]
})
client.transport.request({
method: 'GET',
path: '/my-index/_search',
body: { foo: 'bar' },
querystring: { bar: 'baz' }
}, {
ignore: [404]
}, (err, { body, statusCode, headers, warnings }) => {
if (err) console.log(err)
})
----
=== Talk is cheap. Show me the code.
Following you will find a snippet of code with the old client, followed by the same code logic, but with the new client.
[source,js]
----
const { Client, errors } = require('elasticsearch')
const client = new Client({
host: 'http://localhost:9200',
plugins: [utility]
})
async function run () {
try {
const body = await client.search({
index: 'game-of-thrones',
body: {
query: {
match: { quote: 'winter' }
}
}
ignore: [404]
})
console.log(body)
} catch (err) {
if (err instanceof errors.BadRequest) {
console.log('Bad request')
} else {
console.log(err)
}
}
}
function utility (Client, config, components) {
const ca = components.clientAction.factory
Client.prototype.utility = components.clientAction.namespaceFactory()
const utility = Client.prototype.utility.prototype
utility.index = ca({
params: {
refresh: {
type: 'enum',
options: [
'true',
'false',
'wait_for',
''
]
},
},
urls: [
{
fmt: '/<%=index%>/_doc',
req: {
index: {
type: 'string',
required: true
}
}
}
],
needBody: true,
method: 'POST'
})
})
----
And now with the new client.
[source,js]
----
const { Client, errors } = require('@elastic/elasticsearch')
// NOTE: `host` has been renamed to `node`,
// and `plugins` is no longer supported
const client = new Client({ node: 'http://localhost:9200' })
async function run () {
try {
// NOTE: we are using the destructuring assignment
const { body } = await client.search({
index: 'game-of-thrones',
body: {
query: {
match: { quote: 'winter' }
}
}
// NOTE: `ignore` now is in a separated object
}, {
ignore: [404]
})
console.log(body)
} catch (err) {
// NOTE: we are checking the `statusCode` property
if (err.statusCode === 400) {
console.log('Bad request')
} else {
console.log(err)
}
}
}
// NOTE: we can still extend the client, but with a different API.
// This new API is a little bit more verbose, since you must write
// your own validations, but it's way more flexible.
client.extend('utility.index', ({ makeRequest, ConfigurationError }) => {
return function utilityIndex (params, options) {
const { body, index, ...querystring } = params
if (body == null) throw new ConfigurationError('Missing body')
if (index == null) throw new ConfigurationError('Missing index')
const requestParams = {
method: 'POST',
path: `/${index}/_doc`,
body: body,
querystring
}
return makeRequest(requestParams, options)
}
})
----