We've had some discussions around the user experience when using runtime fields. Although we do plan on having multiple runtime fields implementation (e.g. grok, lookup etc.) which could be exposed as different field types, we decided to expose all runtime fields under the same `runtime` type. At the moment, the only implementation will be through scripts, hence a `script` must be specified. In the future, there will be other ways to generate values for runtime fields besides scripts.
This translates also to renaming the RuntimeScriptFieldMapper class to RuntimeFieldMapper .
Relates to #59332
This commit includes the work that has been done on the runtime fields feature branch until now. The high level tasks are listed in #59332. The tasks that have not yet been completed can be worked on after merging the feature branch.
We are adding a new x-pack plugin called runtime-fields that plugs in a custom mapper which allows to define runtime fields based on a script.
The changes included in this commit that were made outside of the x-pack/plugin/runtime-fields directory are minimal and revolve around 1) making the ScriptService available while parsing index mappings so that the scripts associated to runtime fields can be compiled 2) sharing code to manipulate ranges etc. as it can be reused in runtime fields.
Co-authored-by: Nik Everett <nik9000@gmail.com>
Luca Cavanna