Today when canceling a task we broadcast ban/unban requests to all nodes
in the cluster. This strategy does not scale well for hierarchical
cancellation. With this change, we will track outstanding child requests
and broadcast the cancellation to only nodes that have outstanding child
tasks. This change also prevents a parent task from sending child
requests once it got canceled.
Relates #50990
Supersedes #51157
Co-authored-by: Igor Motov <igor@motovs.org>
Co-authored-by: Yannick Welsch <yannick@welsch.lu>
Several files in the REST APIs nav section are included using
:leveloffset: tags. This increments headings (h2 -> h3, h3 -> h4, etc.)
in those files and removes the :leveloffset: tags.
Other supporting changes:
* Alphabetizes top-level REST API nav items.
* Change 'indices APIs' heading to 'index APIs.'
* Changes 'Snapshot lifecycle management' heading to sentence case.
The `status` part of the tasks API reflects the internal status of a
running task. In general, we do not make backwards breaking changes to
the `status` but because it is internal we reserve the right to do so. I
suspect we will very rarely excercise that right but it is important
that we have it so we're not boxed into any particular implementation
for a request.
In some sense this is policy making by documentation change. In another
it is clarification of the way we've always thought of this field.
I also reflect the documentation change into the Javadoc in a few
places. There I acknowledge Kibana's "special relationship" with
Elasticsearch. Kibana parses `_reindex`'s `status` field and, because
we're friends with those folks, we should talk to them before we make
backwards breaking changes to it. We *want* to be friends with everyone
but there is only so much time in the day and we don't *want* to make
backwards breaking fields to `status` at all anyway. So we hope that
breaking changes documentation should be enough for other folks.
Relates to #34245.
We had been using `task_id:1` or `taskId:1` because it is parses as a
valid task identifier but the `:1` part is confusing. This replaces
those examples with `task_id` which matches the response from the list
tasks API.
Closes#28314
Provides an example of using is and an example return description
and explains that we've added descriptions for some tasks but not
even close to all of them. And that we expect to change the
descriptions as we learn more.
Closes#22407
* Fix example
Getting a single task is always detailed, no need to specify.
* Rewrite like imotov wants it
Today when parsing a request, Elasticsearch silently ignores incorrect
(including parameters with typos) or unused parameters. This is bad as
it leads to requests having unintended behavior (e.g., if a user hits
the _analyze API and misspell the "tokenizer" then Elasticsearch will
just use the standard analyzer, completely against intentions).
This commit removes lenient URL parameter parsing. The strategy is
simple: when a request is handled and a parameter is touched, we mark it
as such. Before the request is actually executed, we check to ensure
that all parameters have been consumed. If there are remaining
parameters yet to be consumed, we fail the request with a list of the
unconsumed parameters. An exception has to be made for parameters that
format the response (as opposed to controlling the request); for this
case, handlers are able to provide a list of parameters that should be
excluded from tripping the unconsumed parameters check because those
parameters will be used in formatting the response.
Additionally, some inconsistencies between the parameters in the code
and in the docs are corrected.
Relates #20722
Funny node names have been removed in #19456 and replaced by UUID. This commit removes these obsolete node names and replace them by real UUIDs in the documentation.
closes#20065
This adds a get task API that supports GET /_tasks/${taskId} and
removes that responsibility from the list tasks API. The get task
API supports wait_for_complation just as the list tasks API does
but doesn't support any of the list task API's filters. In exchange,
it supports falling back to the .results index when the task isn't
running any more. Like any good GET API it 404s when it doesn't
find the task.
Then we change reindex, update-by-query, and delete-by-query to
persist the task result when wait_for_completion=false. The leads
to the neat behavior that, once you start a reindex with
wait_for_completion=false, you can fetch the result of the task by
using the get task API and see the result when it has finished.
Also rename the .results index to .tasks.
Adds infrastructure so `gradle :docs:check` will extract tests from
snippets in the documentation and execute the tests. This is included
in `gradle check` so it should happen on CI and during a normal build.
By default each `// AUTOSENSE` snippet creates a unique REST test. These
tests are executed in a random order and the cluster is wiped between
each one. If multiple snippets chain together into a test you can annotate
all snippets after the first with `// TEST[continued]` to have the
generated tests for both snippets joined.
Snippets marked as `// TESTRESPONSE` are checked against the response
of the last action.
See docs/README.asciidoc for lots more.
Closes#12583. That issue is about catching bugs in the docs during build.
This catches *some* bugs in the docs during build which is a good start.
By default, tasks are grouped by node. However, task execution in elasticsearch can be quite complex and an individual task that runs on a coordinating node can have many subtasks running on other nodes in the cluster. This commit makes it possible to list task grouped by common parents instead of by node. When this option is enabled all subtask are grouped under the coordinating node task that started all subtasks in the group. To group tasks by common parents, use the following syntax:
GET /tasks?group_by=parents