Version of ES: 7.16.

I'm aware that "types" have more or less been phased out in v7 ... seemingly leaving only "_doc" as the endpoint after the index name. Can anyone say whether there's any difference between these 2 queries in ES 7?

search_url = f'{ES_URL}my_index/_doc/_search?q={search_string}'

or

search_url = f'{ES_URL}my_index/_search?q={search_string}'

They seem to return the same hits...

Will the second become illegal in a future ES version?

CodePudding user response：

there's no difference in 7.X, no

in 8.X the first one will error as there are no types, so only the second one will work

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/8.0/removal-of-types.html and https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.16/removal-of-types.html go into that more