# DeleteByQueryRequestBuilder no longer allows setting routing? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [May 15, 2018, 9:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deletebyqueryrequestbuilder-no-longer-allows-setting-routing/132003 "2018-05-15T21:13:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![orogvany](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a183cd/32.png) [@orogvany](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/orogvany)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2018, 9:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deletebyqueryrequestbuilder-no-longer-allows-setting-routing/132003/1 "2018-05-15T21:13:20Z")
I'm (finally) updating from ES 2.old to 6.2.4. However, it seems like the ability to set routing on a delete-by-query request via the DeleteByQueryRequestBuilder has gone missing? In the REST docs, it shows that routing is supported for delete by queries, however, I am either missing where this is now configured, or it's missing when using the java API (the new high level rest client doesn't support deletebyquery at all yet, so I'm stuck with legacy client). Any help would be appreciated, thanks! ---
**Author:** ![orogvany](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a183cd/32.png) [@orogvany](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/orogvany)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 5:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deletebyqueryrequestbuilder-no-longer-allows-setting-routing/132003/2 "2018-05-24T17:56:56Z")
bump, could really use some help with this. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2018, 5:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deletebyqueryrequestbuilder-no-longer-allows-setting-routing/132003/3 "2018-06-21T17:56:59Z")
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