Today the `_field_caps` API returns the list of indices where a field
is present only if this field has different types within the requested indices.
However if the request is an index pattern (or an alias, or both...) there
is no way to infer the indices if the response contains only fields that have
the same type in all indices. This commit changes the response to always return
the list of indices in the response. It also adds a way to retrieve unmapped field
in a specific section per field called `unmapped`. This section is created for each field
that is present in some indices but not all if the parameter `include_unmapped` is set to
true in the request (defaults to false).
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.
Jim Ferenczi
Darren Meiss
Julie Tibshirani
Clinton Gormley
Jim Ferenczi