1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/query/MoreLikeThisQueryBuilder.java b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/query/MoreLikeThisQueryBuilder.java
index 66f623cbbb..5fa36ec977 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/query/MoreLikeThisQueryBuilder.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/query/MoreLikeThisQueryBuilder.java
@@ -805,7 +805,7 @@ public class MoreLikeThisQueryBuilder extends AbstractQueryBuilder<MoreLikeThisQ
         builder.endObject();
     }
 
-    public static MoreLikeThisQueryBuilder fromXContent(QueryParseContext parseContext) throws IOException {
+    public static Optional<MoreLikeThisQueryBuilder> fromXContent(QueryParseContext parseContext) throws IOException {
         XContentParser parser = parseContext.parser();
 
         // document inputs
@@ -955,7 +955,7 @@ public class MoreLikeThisQueryBuilder extends AbstractQueryBuilder<MoreLikeThisQ
         if (stopWords != null) {
             moreLikeThisQueryBuilder.stopWords(stopWords);
         }
-        return moreLikeThisQueryBuilder;
+        return Optional.of(moreLikeThisQueryBuilder);
     }
 
     private static void parseLikeField(QueryParseContext parseContext, List<String> texts, List<Item> items) throws IOException {