Our strong recommendation is disabling swap over any other alternative
to avoid the JVM from landing on disk. This commit clarifies the docs in
this regard.
This commit documents how to write a `ScriptEngine` in order to use
expert internal apis, such as using Lucene directly to find index term
statistics. These documents prepare the way to remove both native
scripts and IndexLookup.
The example java code is actually compiled and tested under a new gradle
subproject for example plugins. This change does not yet breakup
jvm-example into the new examples dir, which should be done separately.
relates #19359
relates #19966
This commit adds support for histogram and date_histogram agg compound order by refactoring and reusing terms agg order code. The major change is that the Terms.Order and Histogram.Order classes have been replaced/refactored into a new class BucketOrder. This is a breaking change for the Java Transport API. For backward compatibility with previous ES versions the (date)histogram compound order will use the first order. Also the _term and _time aggregation order keys have been deprecated; replaced by _key.
Relates to #20003: now that all these aggregations use the same order code, it should be easier to move validation to parse time (as a follow up PR).
Relates to #14771: histogram and date_histogram aggregation order will now be validated at reduce time.
Closes#23613: if a single BucketOrder that is not a tie-breaker is added with the Java Transport API, it will be converted into a CompoundOrder with a tie-breaker.
Currently, the get snapshots API (e.g. /_snapshot/{repositoryName}/_all)
provides information about snapshots in the repository, including the
snapshot state, number of shards snapshotted, failures, etc. In order
to provide information about each snapshot in the repository, the call
must read the snapshot metadata blob (`snap-{snapshot_uuid}.dat`) for
every snapshot. In cloud-based repositories, this can be expensive,
both from a cost and performance perspective. Sometimes, all the user
wants is to retrieve all the names/uuids of each snapshot, and the
indices that went into each snapshot, without any of the other status
information about the snapshot. This minimal information can be
retrieved from the repository index blob (`index-N`) without needing to
read each snapshot metadata blob.
This commit enhances the get snapshots API with an optional `verbose`
parameter. If `verbose` is set to false on the request, then the get
snapshots API will only retrieve the minimal information about each
snapshot (the name, uuid, and indices in the snapshot), and only read
this information from the repository index blob, thereby giving users
the option to retrieve the snapshots in a repository in a more
cost-effective and efficient manner.
Closes#24288
Now that indices have a single type by default, we can move to the next step
and identify documents using their `_id` rather than the `_uid`.
One notable change in this commit is that I made deletions implicitly create
types. This helps with the live version map in the case that documents are
deleted before the first type is introduced. Otherwise there would be no way
to differenciate `DELETE index/foo/1` followed by `PUT index/foo/1` from
`DELETE index/bar/1` followed by `PUT index/foo/1`, even though those are
different if versioning is involved.
This commit adds support for indexing and searching a new ip_range field type. Both IPv4 and IPv6 formats are supported. Tests are updated and docs are added.
`_search_shards`API today only returns aliases names if there is an alias
filter associated with one of them. Now it can be useful to see which aliases
have been expanded for an index given the index expressions. This change also includes non-filtering aliases even without a filtering alias being present.
Adds CONSOLE to cross-cluster-search docs but skips them for testing
because we don't have a second cluster set up. This gets us the
`VIEW IN CONSOLE` and `COPY AS CURL` links and makes sure that they
are valid yaml (not json, technically) but doesn't get testing.
Which is better than we had before.
Adds CONSOLE to the dynamic templates docs and ingest-node docs.
The ingest-node docs contain a *ton* of non-console snippets. We
might want to convert them to full examples later, but that can be
a separate thing.
Relates to #18160
Rewrites most of the snippets in the `innert_hits` docs to be
complete examples and enables `VIEW IN CONSOLE`, `COPY AS CURL`,
and automatic testing of the snippets.
Today we go to heroic lengths to workaround bugs in the JDK or around
issues like BSD jails to get information about the underlying file
store. For example, we went to lengths to work around a JDK bug where
the file store returned would incorrectly report whether or not a path
is writable in certain situations in Windows operating
systems. Another bug prevented getting file store information on
Windows on a virtual drive on Windows. We no longer need to work
around these bugs, we could simply try to write to disk and let an I/O
exception arise if we could not write to the disk or take advantage of
the fact that these bugs are fixed in recent releases of the JDK
(e.g., the file store bug is fixed since 8u72). Additionally, we
collected information about all file stores on the system which meant
that if the user had a stale NFS mount, Elasticsearch could hang and
fail on startup if that mount point was not available. Finally, we
collected information through Lucene about whether or not a disk was a
spinning disk versus an SSD, information that we do not need since we
assume SSDs by default. This commit takes into consideration that we
simply do not need this heroic effort, we do not need information
about all file stores, and we do not need information about whether or
not a disk spins to greatly simplfy file store handling.
Relates #24402
Open/Close index api have allow_no_indices set to false by default, while delete index has it set to true. The flag controls where a wildcard expression that matches no indices will be ignored or an error will be thrown instead. This commit aligns open/close default behaviour to that of delete index.
Add info about the base image used and the github repo of
elasticsearch-docker.
Clarify that setting `memlock=-1:-1` is only a requirement when
`bootstrap_memory_lock=true` and the alternatives we document
elsewhere in docs for disabling swap are valid for Docker as well.
Additionally, with latest versions of docker-ce shipping with
unlimited (or high enough) defaults for `nofile` and `nproc`, clarify
that explicitly setting those per ES container is not required, unless
they are not defined in the Docker daemon.
Finally simplify production `docker-compose.yml` example by removing
unneeded options.
Relates #24389
This change makes the request builder code-path same as `Client#execute`. The request builder used to return a `ListenableActionFuture` when calling execute, which allows to associate listeners with the returned future. For async execution though it is recommended to use the `execute` method that accepts an `ActionListener`, like users would do when using `Client#execute`.
Relates to #24412
Relates to #9201
The _cat/shards docs asserted that one of the columns looked like
a propery byte size but used a regex like `\d+\.\d+.*` which doesn't
match `0b` which is a possible value. Instead this uses
`\d(\.\d+)?[kmg]?b`.
The response is attempting to illustrate the sync_id marker, but in
the test the index is too "fresh" to have a sync marker. So the test
needs to execute a sync flush behind the scenes so that the marker
is present
Currently we don't write the count value to the geo_centroid aggregation rest response,
but it is provided via the java api and the count() method in the GeoCentroid interface.
We should add this parameter to the rest output and also provide it via the getProperty()
method.
The alias parameter was documented as a list in our rest-spec, yet only the first value out of a list was getting read and processed. This commit adds support for multiple aliases to _cat/aliases
Closes#23661
This adds the `index.mapping.single_type` setting, which enforces that indices
have at most one type when it is true. The default value is true for 6.0+ indices
and false for old indices.
Relates #15613
Docs: rewrite description of `bool`'s `should`
Rewrites the description of the `bool` query's `should`
clauses so it is (hopefully) more clear what the defaults
for `minimum_should_match` are.
There is still an `[IMPORTANT]` section about `minimum_should_match`
in a filter context. I think it is worth keeping because it is, well,
important.
Closes#23831
This commit adds a link to the minimum master nodes section of the
important settings docs from the Zen discovery docs to clarify the
meaning and importance of setting minimum master nodes to a quorum of
master-eligible nodes.
Relates #24311
The `count` value in the stats aggregation represents a simple doc count
that doesn't require a formatted version. We didn't render an "as_string"
version for count in the rest response, so the method should also be
removed in favour of just using String.valueOf(getCount()) if a string
version of the count is needed.
Closes#24287
I just spent ages debugging a script I wrote after following the documentation. It was not clear to me that _index is not defined when using painless; if it was mentioned on this page I would have saved myself a lot of time.
For the Windows service, JAVA_HOME should be set to the path to the
JDK. We should make this clear in the docs to help users avoid
frustrating startup problems.
Relates #24260
Add option "enable_position_increments" with default value true.
If option is set to false, indexed value is the number of tokens
(not position increments count)
This commit rewords the note on whitespace in Log4j settings to not
refer to only of the examples on the page, but instead be clear that the
note applies to all the examples on the page.
A confusing thing that can happen when configuring Log4j is that
extraneous whitespace throws off its configuration parsing yet the error
messages that arise give no indication that this is the problem. This
commit adds a note to the docs.
Relates #24198
This commit removes the deprecated cloud.aws.* settings. It also removes
backcompat for specifying `discovery.type: ec2`, and unused aws signer
code which was removed in a previous PR.
This change adds an index setting to define how the documents should be sorted inside each Segment.
It allows any numeric, date, boolean or keyword field inside a mapping to be used to sort the index on disk.
It is not allowed to use a `nested` fields inside an index that defines an index sorting since `nested` fields relies on the original sort of the index.
This change does not add early termination capabilities in the search layer. This will be added in a follow up.
Relates #6720
Elasticsearch runs as user elasticsearch with uid:gid 1000:1000 inside
the Docker container. Clarify that bind mounted local directories need
to be accessible by this user.
Relates #24092
We want to upgrade to Lucene 7 ahead of time in order to be able to check whether it causes any trouble to Elasticsearch before Lucene 7.0 gets released. From a user perspective, the main benefit of this upgrade is the enhanced support for sparse fields, whose resource consumption is now function of the number of docs that have a value rather than the total number of docs in the index.
Some notes about the change:
- it includes the deprecation of the `disable_coord` parameter of the `bool` and `common_terms` queries: Lucene has removed support for coord factors
- it includes the deprecation of the `index.similarity.base` expert setting, since it was only useful to configure coords and query norms, which have both been removed
- two tests have been marked with `@AwaitsFix` because of #23966, which we intend to address after the merge
The docs don't clearly explain that the deleted doc count also comes from lucene.
IMHO, it is worth highlighting this information separately, as a Note.
Apart from that, there should be an official recommended alternative as well.
Today Elasticsearch allows default settings to be used only if the
actual setting is not set. These settings are trappy, and the complexity
invites bugs. This commit removes support for default settings with the
exception of default.path.data, default.path.conf, and default.path.logs
which are maintainted to support packaging. A follow-up will remove
support for these as well.
Relates #24093
Drops any mention of non-sandboxed scripting languages other than a
brief "we don't support them and we shouldn't because A and B"
statement.
Relates to #23930
Now that we have incremental reduce functions for topN and aggregations
we can set the default for `action.search.shard_count.limit` to unlimited.
This still allows users to restrict these settings while by default we executed
across all shards matching the search requests index pattern.
_field_stats has evolved quite a lot to become a multi purpose API capable of retrieving the field capabilities and the min/max value for a field.
In the mean time a more focused API called `_field_caps` has been added, this enpoint is a good replacement for _field_stats since he can
retrieve the field capabilities by just looking at the field mapping (no lookup in the index structures).
Also the recent improvement made to range queries makes the _field_stats API obsolete since this queries are now rewritten per shard based on the min/max found for the field.
This means that a range query that does not match any document in a shard can return quickly and can be cached efficiently.
For these reasons this change deprecates _field_stats. The deprecation should happen in 5.4 but we won't remove this API in 6.x yet which is why
this PR is made directly to 6.0.
The rest tests have also been adapted to not throw an error while this change is backported to 5.4.
This commit removes some leniency from the plugin service which skips
hidden files in the plugins directory. We really want to ensure the
integrity of the plugin folder, so hasta la vista leniency.
Relates #23982
They needed to be updated now that Painless is the default and
the non-sandboxed scripting languages are going away or gone.
I dropped the entire section about customizing the classloader
whitelists. In master this barely does anything (exposes more
things to expressions).
Before now ranges where forbidden, because the percolator query itself could get cached and then the percolator queries with now ranges that should no longer match, incorrectly will continue to match.
By disabling caching when the `percolator` is being used, the percolator can now correctly support range queries with now based ranges.
I think this is the right tradeoff. The percolator query is likely to not be the same between search requests and disabling range queries with now ranges really disabled people using the percolator for their use cases.
Also fixed an issue that existed in the percolator fieldmapper, it was unable to find forbidden queries inside `dismax` queries.
Closes#23859
While there are use-cases where a single-node is in production, there
are also use-cases for starting a single-node that binds transport to an
external interface where the node is not in production (for example, for
testing the transport client against a node started in a Docker
container). It's tricky to balance the desire to always enforce the
bootstrap checks when a node might be in production with the need for
the community to perform testing in situations that would trip the
bootstrap checks. This commit enables some flexibility for these
users. By setting the discovery type to "single-node", we disable the
bootstrap checks independently of how transport is bound. While this
sounds like a hole in the bootstrap checks, the bootstrap checks can
already be avoided in the single-node use-case by binding only HTTP but
not transport. For users that are genuinely in production on a
single-node use-case with transport bound to an external use-case, they
can set the system property "es.enable.bootstrap.checks" to force
running the bootstrap checks. It would be a mistake for them not to do
this.
Relates #23598
Fielddata can no longer be configured to be loaded eagerly (it only accepts
`true` and `false`), so this line is a little misleading because it talks about
a procedure we can no longer do.
Converts the analysis docs to that were marked as json into `CONSOLE`
format. A few of them were in yaml but marked as json for historical
reasons. I added more complete examples for a few of the less obvious
sounding ones.
Relates to #18160
The pattern-analyzer docs contained a snippet that was an expanded
regex that was marked as `[source,js]`. This changes it to
`[source,regex]`.
The htmlstrip-charfilter and pattern-replace-charfilter docs had
examples that were actually a list of tokens but marked `[source,js]`.
This marks them as `[source,text]` so they don't count as unconverted
CONSOLE snippets.
The pattern-replace-charfilter also had a doc who's test was
skipped because of funny interaction with the test framework. This
fixes the test.
Three more down, eighty-two to go.
Relates to #18160
CONSOLEifies the lang-analyzer docs and replaces the (invalid)
empty `keyword_marker` setups that were on the page with one
that contains the word "example" translated into the appropriate
language.
Relates to #18160
This change introduces a new API called `_field_caps` that allows to retrieve the capabilities of specific fields.
Example:
````
GET t,s,v,w/_field_caps?fields=field1,field2
````
... returns:
````
{
"fields": {
"field1": {
"string": {
"searchable": true,
"aggregatable": true
}
},
"field2": {
"keyword": {
"searchable": false,
"aggregatable": true,
"non_searchable_indices": ["t"]
"indices": ["t", "s"]
},
"long": {
"searchable": true,
"aggregatable": false,
"non_aggregatable_indices": ["v"]
"indices": ["v", "w"]
}
}
}
}
````
In this example `field1` have the same type `text` across the requested indices `t`, `s`, `v`, `w`.
Conversely `field2` is defined with two conflicting types `keyword` and `long`.
Note that `_field_caps` does not treat this case as an error but rather return the list of unique types seen for this field.
I managed to push the last one without testing it because I'd changed
the way I run tests locally and hadn't picked it up. Ooops. This one
works better.
All the docs for the `exists` query that aren't marked as `CONSOLE`
aren't actually `CONSOLE`-worthy so this marks them as `NOTCONSOLE`.
It also rewrites the text around `missing` query. Since it was
removed in 5.0 we don't need to talk about it in the 6.0 docs.
Relates to #18160
Turns the top example in each of the geo aggregation docs into a working
example that can be opened in CONSOLE. Subsequent examples can all also
be opened in console and will work after you've run the first example.
All examples are tested as part of the build.
This commit clarifies the preference docs regarding the explanation of
how operations are routed by default. In particular, the previous use of
"shard replicas" was confusing as it could imply an operation would only
be routed to replicas by default.
Relates #23794
This commit adds support for the pattern keyword marker filter in
Lucene. Previously, the keyword marker filter in Elasticsearch
supported specifying a keywords set or a path to a set of keywords.
This commit exposes the regular expression pattern based keyword marker
filter also available in Lucene, so that any token matching the pattern
specified by the `keywords_pattern` setting is excluded from being
stemmed by any stemming filters.
Closes#4877
As the query of a search request defaults to match_all,
calling _delete_by_query without an explicit query may
result in deleting all data.
In order to protect users against falling into that
pitfall, this commit adds a check to require the explicit
setting of a query.
Closes#23629
This commit adds the boolean similarity scoring from Lucene to
Elasticsearch. The boolean similarity provides a means to specify that
a field should not be scored with typical full-text ranking algorithms,
but rather just whether the query terms match the document or not.
Boolean similarity scores a query term equal to its query boost only.
Boolean similarity is available as a default similarity option and thus
a field can be specified to have boolean similarity by declaring in its
mapping:
"similarity": "boolean"
Closes#6731
The OpenJDK project provides early-access builds of upcoming
releases. These early-access builds are not suitable for
production. These builds sometimes end up on systems due to aggressive
packaging (e.g., Ubuntu). This commit adds a bootstrap check to ensure
these early-access builds are not being used in production.
Relates #23743
This is especially useful when we rewrite the query because the result of the rewrite can be very different on different shards. See #18254 for example.
* Add support for fragment_length in the unified highlighter
This commit introduce a new break iterator (a BoundedBreakIterator) designed for the unified highlighter
that is able to limit the size of fragments produced by generic break iterator like `sentence`.
The `unified` highlighter now supports `boundary_scanner` which can `words` or `sentence`.
The `sentence` mode will use the bounded break iterator in order to limit the size of the sentence to `fragment_length`.
When sentences bigger than `fragment_length` are produced, this mode will break the sentence at the next word boundary **after**
`fragment_length` is reached.
The reindex API is mature now, and we will work to maintain backwards
compatibility in accordance with our backwards compatibility
policy. This commit unmarks the reindex API as experimental.
Relates #23621
In SI units, "kilobyte" or "kB" would mean 1000 bytes, whereas "KiB" is
used for 1024. Add a note in `api-conventions.asciidoc` to clarify the
meaning in Elasticsearch.
This commit adds a system property that enables end-users to explicitly
enforce the bootstrap checks, independently of the binding of the
transport protocol. This can be useful for single-node production
systems that do not bind the transport protocol (and thus the bootstrap
checks would not be enforced).
Relates #23585