Raw json support

.gitignore

@@ -18,3 +18,6 @@ gradle-app.setting
 *.iml
 
 .ci/output
+
+# HTML files produced by the docs build
+html_docs

docs/index.asciidoc

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ include::installation.asciidoc[]
 include::connecting.asciidoc[]
 include::migrate.asciidoc[]
 include::api-conventions.asciidoc[]
+include::loading-json.asciidoc[]
 include::javadoc-and-source.asciidoc[]
 
 include::{elasticsearch-root}/docs/java-rest/low-level/index.asciidoc[]

docs/loading-json.asciidoc

@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+[[loading-json]]
+== Creating API objects from JSON data
+
+A common workflow during application development with Elasticsearch is to use the Kibana Developer Console to interactively prepare and test queries, aggregations, index mappings and other complex API calls. This results in working JSON snippets that you may want to use in your application.
+
+As translating these JSON snippets to Java code can be time-consuming and error-prone, most of the data classes in the {java-client} can be loaded from JSON text: object builders have `withJson()` methods that populate the builder from raw JSON. This also allows you to combine dynamically loaded JSON with programmatic construction of objects.
+
+Under the hood, the `withJson()` methods call the object's deserializer. The JSON text's structure and value types therefore have to be correct for the target data structure. Using `withJson()` keeps the strong typing guarantees of the {java-client}.
+
+[discrete]
+=== Examples
+
+[discrete]
+==== Loading an index definition from a resource file
+
+Consider a resource file `some-index.json` containing an index definition:
+
+["source", "json"]
+--------------------------------------------------
+{
+  "mappings": {
+    "properties": {
+      "field1": { "type": "text" }
+    }
+  }
+}
+--------------------------------------------------
+
+You can create an index from that definition as follows:
+
+["source","java"]
+--------------------------------------------------
+include-tagged::{doc-tests}/LoadingJson.java[load-index]
+--------------------------------------------------
+<1> the input stream for the resource file.
+<2> a {java-client} JSON mapper, used to create a JSON parser and find object deserializers. This will generally be the client's mapper.
+
+[discrete]
+==== Ingesting documents from JSON files
+
+Similarly, you can read documents to be stored in {es} from data files:
+
+["source","java"]
+--------------------------------------------------
+include-tagged::{doc-tests}/LoadingJson.java[ingest-data]
+--------------------------------------------------
+<1> When calling `withJson()` on data structures that have generic type parameters, these generic types will be considered to be `JsonData`.
+
+[discrete]
+==== Creating a search request combining JSON and programmatic construction
+
+You can combine `withJson()` with regular calls to setter methods. The example below loads the query part of a search request from a `String` and programmatically adds an aggregation.
+
+["source","java"]
+--------------------------------------------------
+include-tagged::{doc-tests}/LoadingJson.java[query]
+--------------------------------------------------
+<1> loads the query from the JSON string.
+<2> adds the aggregation.
+<3> since this is an aggregation we don't care about result documents and set their target class to `Void`, meaning they will just be ignored. Note that setting `size` to zero actually prevents any document from being returned.
+
+[discrete]
+==== Creating a search request from multiple JSON snippets
+
+The `withJson()` methods are partial deserializers: the properties loaded from the JSON will set property values or replace the previous ones, but will not reset other properties not found in the JSON input. You can use this to combine multiple JSON snippets to build complex search requests (this uses `queryJson` from the previous example):
+
+["source","java"]
+--------------------------------------------------
+include-tagged::{doc-tests}/LoadingJson.java[query-and-agg]
+--------------------------------------------------
+<1> loads the query part of the request.
+<2> loads the aggregation part of the request.
+<3> additional request properties set programmatically.

java-client/src/main/java/co/elastic/clients/ApiClient.java

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 
 package co.elastic.clients;
 
+import co.elastic.clients.json.JsonpMapper;
 import co.elastic.clients.transport.TransportOptions;
 import co.elastic.clients.transport.Transport;
 import co.elastic.clients.json.JsonpDeserializer;
@@ -51,11 +52,23 @@ protected <V> JsonpDeserializer<V> getDeserializer(Class<V> clazz) {
      */
     public abstract Self withTransportOptions(@Nullable TransportOptions transportOptions);
 
+    /**
+     * Get the transport used by this client to handle communication with the server.
+     */
     public T _transport() {
         return this.transport;
     }
 
     public TransportOptions _transportOptions() {
         return this.transportOptions;
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Get the JSON mapper used to map API objects to/from JSON.
+     * <p>
+     * Shortcut for <code>_transport().jsonpMapper()</code>
+     */
+    public JsonpMapper _jsonpMapper() {
+        return transport.jsonpMapper();
+    }
 }

java-client/src/main/java/co/elastic/clients/elasticsearch/_types/AcknowledgedResponseBase.java

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 import co.elastic.clients.json.ObjectDeserializer;
 import co.elastic.clients.util.ApiTypeHelper;
 import co.elastic.clients.util.ObjectBuilder;
-import co.elastic.clients.util.ObjectBuilderBase;
+import co.elastic.clients.util.WithJsonObjectBuilderBase;
 import jakarta.json.stream.JsonGenerator;
 import java.lang.Boolean;
 import java.util.Objects;
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ protected void serializeInternal(JsonGenerator generator, JsonpMapper mapper) {
 
 	protected abstract static class AbstractBuilder<BuilderT extends AbstractBuilder<BuilderT>>
 			extends
-				ObjectBuilderBase {
+				WithJsonObjectBuilderBase<BuilderT> {
 		private Boolean acknowledged;
 
 		/**

java-client/src/main/java/co/elastic/clients/elasticsearch/_types/BaseNode.java

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 import co.elastic.clients.json.ObjectDeserializer;
 import co.elastic.clients.util.ApiTypeHelper;
 import co.elastic.clients.util.ObjectBuilder;
-import co.elastic.clients.util.ObjectBuilderBase;
+import co.elastic.clients.util.WithJsonObjectBuilderBase;
 import jakarta.json.stream.JsonGenerator;
 import java.lang.String;
 import java.util.List;
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ protected void serializeInternal(JsonGenerator generator, JsonpMapper mapper) {
 
 	protected abstract static class AbstractBuilder<BuilderT extends AbstractBuilder<BuilderT>>
 			extends
-				ObjectBuilderBase {
+				WithJsonObjectBuilderBase<BuilderT> {
 		private Map<String, String> attributes;
 
 		private String host;

java-client/src/main/java/co/elastic/clients/elasticsearch/_types/BulkIndexByScrollFailure.java

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 import co.elastic.clients.json.ObjectDeserializer;
 import co.elastic.clients.util.ApiTypeHelper;
 import co.elastic.clients.util.ObjectBuilder;
-import co.elastic.clients.util.ObjectBuilderBase;
+import co.elastic.clients.util.WithJsonObjectBuilderBase;
 import jakarta.json.stream.JsonGenerator;
 import java.lang.Integer;
 import java.lang.String;
@@ -143,7 +143,9 @@ protected void serializeInternal(JsonGenerator generator, JsonpMapper mapper) {
 	 * Builder for {@link BulkIndexByScrollFailure}.
 	 */
 
-	public static class Builder extends ObjectBuilderBase implements ObjectBuilder<BulkIndexByScrollFailure> {
+	public static class Builder extends WithJsonObjectBuilderBase<Builder>
+			implements
+				ObjectBuilder<BulkIndexByScrollFailure> {
 		private ErrorCause cause;
 
 		private String id;
@@ -201,6 +203,11 @@ public final Builder type(String value) {
 			return this;
 		}
 
+		@Override
+		protected Builder self() {
+			return this;
+		}
+
 		/**
 		 * Builds a {@link BulkIndexByScrollFailure}.
 		 *

java-client/src/main/java/co/elastic/clients/elasticsearch/_types/BulkStats.java

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 import co.elastic.clients.json.ObjectDeserializer;
 import co.elastic.clients.util.ApiTypeHelper;
 import co.elastic.clients.util.ObjectBuilder;
-import co.elastic.clients.util.ObjectBuilderBase;
+import co.elastic.clients.util.WithJsonObjectBuilderBase;
 import jakarta.json.stream.JsonGenerator;
 import java.lang.Long;
 import java.lang.String;
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ protected void serializeInternal(JsonGenerator generator, JsonpMapper mapper) {
 	 * Builder for {@link BulkStats}.
 	 */
 
-	public static class Builder extends ObjectBuilderBase implements ObjectBuilder<BulkStats> {
+	public static class Builder extends WithJsonObjectBuilderBase<Builder> implements ObjectBuilder<BulkStats> {
 		private Long totalOperations;
 
 		@Nullable
@@ -306,6 +306,11 @@ public final Builder avgSizeInBytes(long value) {
 			return this;
 		}
 
+		@Override
+		protected Builder self() {
+			return this;
+		}
+
 		/**
 		 * Builds a {@link BulkStats}.
 		 *

java-client/src/main/java/co/elastic/clients/elasticsearch/_types/ClusterStatistics.java

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 import co.elastic.clients.json.ObjectDeserializer;
 import co.elastic.clients.util.ApiTypeHelper;
 import co.elastic.clients.util.ObjectBuilder;
-import co.elastic.clients.util.ObjectBuilderBase;
+import co.elastic.clients.util.WithJsonObjectBuilderBase;
 import jakarta.json.stream.JsonGenerator;
 import java.lang.Integer;
 import java.util.Objects;
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ protected void serializeInternal(JsonGenerator generator, JsonpMapper mapper) {
 	 * Builder for {@link ClusterStatistics}.
 	 */
 
-	public static class Builder extends ObjectBuilderBase implements ObjectBuilder<ClusterStatistics> {
+	public static class Builder extends WithJsonObjectBuilderBase<Builder> implements ObjectBuilder<ClusterStatistics> {
 		private Integer skipped;
 
 		private Integer successful;
@@ -146,6 +146,11 @@ public final Builder total(int value) {
 			return this;
 		}
 
+		@Override
+		protected Builder self() {
+			return this;
+		}
+
 		/**
 		 * Builds a {@link ClusterStatistics}.
 		 *

java-client/src/main/java/co/elastic/clients/elasticsearch/_types/CompletionStats.java

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 import co.elastic.clients.json.ObjectDeserializer;
 import co.elastic.clients.util.ApiTypeHelper;
 import co.elastic.clients.util.ObjectBuilder;
-import co.elastic.clients.util.ObjectBuilderBase;
+import co.elastic.clients.util.WithJsonObjectBuilderBase;
 import jakarta.json.stream.JsonGenerator;
 import java.lang.Long;
 import java.lang.String;
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ protected void serializeInternal(JsonGenerator generator, JsonpMapper mapper) {
 	 * Builder for {@link CompletionStats}.
 	 */
 
-	public static class Builder extends ObjectBuilderBase implements ObjectBuilder<CompletionStats> {
+	public static class Builder extends WithJsonObjectBuilderBase<Builder> implements ObjectBuilder<CompletionStats> {
 		private Long sizeInBytes;
 
 		@Nullable
@@ -185,6 +185,11 @@ public final Builder fields(String key, Function<FieldSizeUsage.Builder, ObjectB
 			return fields(key, fn.apply(new FieldSizeUsage.Builder()).build());
 		}
 
+		@Override
+		protected Builder self() {
+			return this;
+		}
+
 		/**
 		 * Builds a {@link CompletionStats}.
 		 *

java-client/src/main/java/co/elastic/clients/elasticsearch/_types/CoordsGeoBounds.java

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 import co.elastic.clients.json.ObjectDeserializer;
 import co.elastic.clients.util.ApiTypeHelper;
 import co.elastic.clients.util.ObjectBuilder;
-import co.elastic.clients.util.ObjectBuilderBase;
+import co.elastic.clients.util.WithJsonObjectBuilderBase;
 import jakarta.json.stream.JsonGenerator;
 import java.lang.Double;
 import java.util.Objects;
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ protected void serializeInternal(JsonGenerator generator, JsonpMapper mapper) {
 	 * Builder for {@link CoordsGeoBounds}.
 	 */
 
-	public static class Builder extends ObjectBuilderBase implements ObjectBuilder<CoordsGeoBounds> {
+	public static class Builder extends WithJsonObjectBuilderBase<Builder> implements ObjectBuilder<CoordsGeoBounds> {
 		private Double top;
 
 		private Double bottom;
@@ -169,6 +169,11 @@ public final Builder right(double value) {
 			return this;
 		}
 
+		@Override
+		protected Builder self() {
+			return this;
+		}
+
 		/**
 		 * Builds a {@link CoordsGeoBounds}.
 		 *

java-client/src/main/java/co/elastic/clients/elasticsearch/_types/DocStats.java

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 import co.elastic.clients.json.ObjectDeserializer;
 import co.elastic.clients.util.ApiTypeHelper;
 import co.elastic.clients.util.ObjectBuilder;
-import co.elastic.clients.util.ObjectBuilderBase;
+import co.elastic.clients.util.WithJsonObjectBuilderBase;
 import jakarta.json.stream.JsonGenerator;
 import java.lang.Long;
 import java.util.Objects;
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ protected void serializeInternal(JsonGenerator generator, JsonpMapper mapper) {
 	 * Builder for {@link DocStats}.
 	 */
 
-	public static class Builder extends ObjectBuilderBase implements ObjectBuilder<DocStats> {
+	public static class Builder extends WithJsonObjectBuilderBase<Builder> implements ObjectBuilder<DocStats> {
 		private Long count;
 
 		@Nullable
@@ -130,6 +130,11 @@ public final Builder deleted(@Nullable Long value) {
 			return this;
 		}
 
+		@Override
+		protected Builder self() {
+			return this;
+		}
+
 		/**
 		 * Builds a {@link DocStats}.
 		 *

java-client/src/main/java/co/elastic/clients/elasticsearch/_types/ElasticsearchVersionInfo.java

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 import co.elastic.clients.util.ApiTypeHelper;
 import co.elastic.clients.util.DateTime;
 import co.elastic.clients.util.ObjectBuilder;
-import co.elastic.clients.util.ObjectBuilderBase;
+import co.elastic.clients.util.WithJsonObjectBuilderBase;
 import jakarta.json.stream.JsonGenerator;
 import java.lang.Boolean;
 import java.lang.String;
@@ -197,7 +197,9 @@ protected void serializeInternal(JsonGenerator generator, JsonpMapper mapper) {
 	 * Builder for {@link ElasticsearchVersionInfo}.
 	 */
 
-	public static class Builder extends ObjectBuilderBase implements ObjectBuilder<ElasticsearchVersionInfo> {
+	public static class Builder extends WithJsonObjectBuilderBase<Builder>
+			implements
+				ObjectBuilder<ElasticsearchVersionInfo> {
 		private DateTime buildDate;
 
 		private String buildFlavor;
@@ -288,6 +290,11 @@ public final Builder number(String value) {
 			return this;
 		}
 
+		@Override
+		protected Builder self() {
+			return this;
+		}
+
 		/**
 		 * Builds a {@link ElasticsearchVersionInfo}.
 		 *