From e0f8d88d5cb5548ed7a2d247d3cbb9bb6c9ca5bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greg Marzouka <greg.marzouka@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 14:41:06 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Include global query string parameters in the REST spec

Closes #11638
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 .../resources/rest-api-spec/api/_common.json  | 29 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 rest-api-spec/src/main/resources/rest-api-spec/api/_common.json

diff --git a/rest-api-spec/src/main/resources/rest-api-spec/api/_common.json b/rest-api-spec/src/main/resources/rest-api-spec/api/_common.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..fec522be4a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rest-api-spec/src/main/resources/rest-api-spec/api/_common.json
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+{
+  "description": "Parameters that are accepted by all API endpoints.",
+  "documentation": "https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/common-options.html",
+  "params": {
+    "pretty": {
+      "type": "boolean",
+      "description": "Pretty format the returned JSON response.",
+      "default": false
+    },
+    "human": {
+      "type": "boolean",
+      "description": "Return human readable values for statistics.",
+      "default": true
+    },
+    "error_trace": {
+      "type": "boolean",
+      "description": "Include the stack trace of returned errors.",
+      "default": false
+    },
+    "source": {
+      "type": "string",
+      "description": "The URL-encoded request definition. Useful for libraries that do not accept a request body for non-POST requests."
+    },
+    "filter_path": {
+      "type": "string",
+      "description": "A comma-separated list of filters used to reduce the respone."
+    }
+  }
+}