# Elasticsearch 5.x setQuery deprecated

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-5-x-setquery-deprecated/66375>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 17, 2016, 11:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-5-x-setquery-deprecated/66375 "2016-11-17T11:51:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Diego\_Corradini1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/diego_corradini1/32/13235_2.png) [@Diego\_Corradini1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Diego_Corradini1)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 11:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-5-x-setquery-deprecated/66375/1 "2016-11-17T11:51:46Z")

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I have a question regarding the last version of Elasticsearch.

Until the previous version I was using the following JAVA API search:

`SearchRequestBuilder request = client.prepareSearch(index).setSource(jsonQuery)`

Now setSource is deprecated and it is recommended to use setQuery(QueryBuilder) instead.

My question is the following, is it possible to pass the whole json query as before?

Thanks in advanced

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**Author:** ![nik9000](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nik9000/32/44947_2.png) [@nik9000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nik9000)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2016, 3:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-5-x-setquery-deprecated/66375/2 "2016-11-17T15:38:50Z")

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I think `QueryBuilder#wrapperQuery` works for the query portion but the rest doesn't have a direct replacement as far as I know.

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**Author:** ![Diego\_Corradini1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/diego_corradini1/32/13235_2.png) [@Diego\_Corradini1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Diego_Corradini1)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2016, 2:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-5-x-setquery-deprecated/66375/3 "2016-11-18T14:54:34Z")

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Thank you for your help Nik

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2016, 2:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-5-x-setquery-deprecated/66375/4 "2016-12-16T14:54:56Z")

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