# Payload related improvements in Elasticsearch vNext?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/payload-related-improvements-in-elasticsearch-vnext/62332>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 6, 2016, 4:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/payload-related-improvements-in-elasticsearch-vnext/62332 "2016-10-06T04:56:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![mosiddi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mosiddi/32/577_2.png) [@mosiddi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mosiddi)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2016, 4:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/payload-related-improvements-in-elasticsearch-vnext/62332/1 "2016-10-06T04:56:13Z")

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Hi there,  
I have a Q around Elasticsearch vNext. We use payload feature of Elasticsearch for enabling our scenario and want to know if we have any improvement planned in this area. We are currently in ES 1.7 and planning to move to ES 2.4 soon.  
Regards,  
Imran

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2016, 5:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/payload-related-improvements-in-elasticsearch-vnext/62332/2 "2016-10-06T05:25:17Z")

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What do you mean by payload feature?

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**Author:** ![mosiddi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mosiddi/32/577_2.png) [@mosiddi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mosiddi)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2016, 5:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/payload-related-improvements-in-elasticsearch-vnext/62332/3 "2016-10-06T05:28:50Z")

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We use this [https://lucene.apache.org/core/4\_3\_0/core/org/apache/lucene/analysis/tokenattributes/PayloadAttribute.html](https://lucene.apache.org/core/4_3_0/core/org/apache/lucene/analysis/tokenattributes/PayloadAttribute.html) to store extra information for each term (token) along with offset and position.

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**Author:** ![mosiddi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mosiddi/32/577_2.png) [@mosiddi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mosiddi)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2016, 6:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/payload-related-improvements-in-elasticsearch-vnext/62332/4 "2016-10-13T06:39:50Z")

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@warkolm - hi, did u get chance to have a look?

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 10:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/payload-related-improvements-in-elasticsearch-vnext/62332/5 "2017-07-05T22:12:46Z")

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