Hello,

          1.x Elasticsearch now supports source filtering with "_source" 
parameter. Basically this will replace the behaviour of "fields" parameter 
in pre-1.x version (especially when fields data are not stored). Migrating 
to "_source" is straightforward, however, I noticed one difference when 
returning a nested field:

* with "fields" in all versions of ES, a query
{
  "query": {
    "match_all": {}
  },
  "fields": "person.name"
}

will return hits as:
{...
 "fields": {
       "person.name": "Tom"
 }
}

* with "_source" in 1.x ES, a query
{
  "query": {
    "match_all": {}
  },
  "_source": "person.name"
}

will return hits as:
{...
 "_source": {
       "person": {
          "name": "Tom"
       }
 }
}


I actually prefer the 2nd format, however, because we are migrating a web 
API to our end users, who might still expect the 1st format, I'd like to 
maintain the compatibility by giving users option to return nested fields 
using dot notation. I can probably do that transformation after ES queries, 
but I'm wondering if there is still a way to toggle the return format in ES 
directly.

Thanks,

Chunlei
(BTW, I really enjoyed the first ElasticON, you guys did a wonderful job!)


Ref: 
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-request-source-filtering.html

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