This commit removes xpack dependencies of many xpack qa modules.
(for some qa modules this will require some more work)
The reason behind this change is that qa rest modules should not depend
on the x-pack plugins, because the plugins are an implementation detail and
the tests should only know about the rest interface and qa cluster that is
being tested.
Also some qa modules rely on xpack plugins and hlrc (which is a valid
dependency for rest qa tests) creates a cyclic dependency and this is
something that we should avoid. Also Eclipse can't handle gradle cyclic
dependencies (see #41064).
* don't copy xpack-core's plugin property into the test resource of qa
modules. Otherwise installing security manager fails, because it tries
to find the XPackPlugin class.
The notion of "quality" is an overloaded term in the search ranking evaluation
context. Its usually used to decribe certain levels of "good" vs. "bad" of a
seach result with respect to the users information need. We currently report the
result of the ranking evaluation as `quality_level` which is a bit missleading.
This changes the response parameter name to `metric_score` which fits better.
Some proxies require all requests to have paths starting with / since
there are no relative paths at the HTTP connection level. Elasticsearch
assumes paths are absolute. In order to run rest tests against a cluster
behind such a proxy, set the system property
tests.rest.client_path_prefix to /.
The core REST tests with security currently use a hardcoded username and
password. This is not amenable to running these tests in scenarios where
the user controls the creation of the cluster and owns the credentials
for this cluster. This commit enables running the core REST tests with
security with a custom username and password.
Martijn van Groningen
Christoph Büscher
Konrad Beiske
Jason Tedor
Michael Basnight
Ryan Ernst