This change adds a `_source` only snapshot repository that allows to wrap
any existing repository as a _backend_ to snapshot only the `_source` part
including live docs markers. Snapshots taken with the `source` repository
won't include any indices, doc-values or points. The snapshot will be reduced in size and
functionality such that it requires full re-indexing after it's successfully restored.
The restore process will copy the `_source` data locally starts a special shard and engine
to allow `match_all` scrolls and searches. Any other query, or get call will fail with and unsupported operation exception. The restored index is also marked as read-only.
This feature aims mainly for disaster recovery use-cases where snapshot size is
a concern or where time to restore is less of an issue.
**NOTE**: The snapshot produced by this repository is still a valid lucene index. This change doesn't allow for any longer retention policies which is out of scope for this change.
This change cleans up some methods in the CharArrays class from x-pack, which
includes the unification of char[] to utf8 and utf8 to char[] conversions that
intentionally do not use strings. There was previously an implementation in
x-pack and in the reloading of secure settings. The method from the reloading
of secure settings was adopted as it handled more scenarios related to the
backing byte and char buffers that were used to perform the conversions. The
cleaned up class is moved into libs/core to allow it to be used by requests
that will be migrated to the high level rest client.
Relates #32332
This is related to #28898. This PR implements pooling of bytes arrays
when reading from the wire in the http server transport. In order to do
this, we must integrate with netty reference counting. That manner in
which this PR implements this is making Pages in InboundChannelBuffer
reference counted. When we accessing the underlying page to pass to
netty, we retain the page. When netty releases its bytebuf, it releases
the underlying pages we have passed to it.