OpenSearch/rest-api-spec
Jim Ferenczi 0f333c89b9
Always rewrite search shard request outside of the search thread pool (#51708) (#51979)
This change ensures that the rewrite of the shard request is executed in the network thread or in the refresh listener when waiting for an active shard. This allows queries that rewrite to match_no_docs to bypass the search thread pool entirely even if the can_match phase was skipped (pre_filter_shard_size > number of shards). Coordinating nodes don't have the ability to create empty responses so this change also ensures that at least one shard creates a full empty response while the other can return null ones. This is needed since creating true empty responses on shards require to create concrete aggregators which would be too costly to build on a network thread. We should move this functionality to aggregation builders in a follow up but that would be a much bigger change.
This change is also important for #49601 since we want to add the ability to use the result of other shards to rewrite the request of subsequent ones. For instance if the first M shards have their top N computed, the top worst document in the global queue can be pass to subsequent shards that can then rewrite to match_no_docs if they can guarantee that they don't have any document better than the provided one.
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Elasticsearch REST API JSON specification

This repository contains a collection of JSON files which describe the Elasticsearch HTTP API.

Their purpose is to formalize and standardize the API, to facilitate development of libraries and integrations.

Example for the "Create Index" API:

{
  "indices.create": {
    "documentation":{
      "url":"https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/indices-create-index.html"
    },
    "stability": "stable",
    "url":{
      "paths":[
        {
          "path":"/{index}",
          "method":"PUT",
          "parts":{
            "index":{
              "type":"string",
              "description":"The name of the index"
            }
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    "params": {
      "timeout": {
        "type" : "time",
        "description" : "Explicit operation timeout"
      }
    },
    "body": {
      "description" : "The configuration for the index (`settings` and `mappings`)"
    }
  }
}

The specification contains:

  • The name of the API (indices.create), which usually corresponds to the client calls
  • Link to the documentation at the http://elastic.co website
  • stability indicating the state of the API, has to be declared explicitly or YAML tests will fail
    • experimental highly likely to break in the near future (minor/path), no bwc guarantees. Possibly removed in the future.
    • beta less likely to break or be removed but still reserve the right to do so
    • stable No backwards breaking changes in a minor
  • Request URL: HTTP method, path and parts
  • Request parameters
  • Request body specification

NOTE If an API is stable but it response should be treated as an arbitrary map of key values please notate this as followed

{
  "api.name": {
    "stability" : "stable",
    "response": {
      "treat_json_as_key_value" : true
    }
  }
}

Backwards compatibility

The specification follows the same backward compatibility guarantees as Elasticsearch.

  • Within a Major, additions only.
  • If an item has been documented wrong it should be deprecated instead as removing these might break downstream clients.
  • Major version change, may deprecate pieces or simply remove them given enough deprecation time.

Deprecations

The specification schema allows to codify API deprecations, either for an entire API, or for specific parts of the API, such as paths or parameters.

Entire API:

{
  "api" : {
    "deprecated" : {
      "version" : "7.0.0",
      "description" : "Reason API is being deprecated"
    },
  }
}

Specific paths and their parts:

{
  "api": {
    "url": {
      "paths": [
        {
          "path":"/{index}/{type}/{id}/_create",
          "method":"PUT",
          "parts":{
            "id":{
              "type":"string",
              "description":"Document ID"
            },
            "index":{
              "type":"string",
              "description":"The name of the index"
            },
            "type":{
              "type":"string",
              "description":"The type of the document",
              "deprecated":true
            }
          },
          "deprecated":{
            "version":"7.0.0",
            "description":"Specifying types in urls has been deprecated"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Parameters

{
  "api": {
    "url": {
      "params": {
        "stored_fields": {
          "type": "list",
          "description" : "",
          "deprecated" : {
            "version" : "7.0.0",
            "description" : "Reason parameter is being deprecated"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

License

This software is licensed under the Apache License, version 2 ("ALv2").