REST client to support node selectors like other language clients #21888
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Thanks for opening this @mikeh-elastic . It is not the first time that I hear this ask for the Java REST client, and I think it makes sense to add as the other language clients support this too. As for the transport client part, I don't think we are going to add features to it, as we want to focus more and more on the Java REST client. |
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Adding some more context from the recent linked issue: Right now if you want to allow an application to use Client Nodes only, you need to define the nodes in the connection settings for the Client. If you add sniffing, you will be able to sniff any node and you could use the sniffHosts option to sniff just client nodes from an external source. If you want to have a dynamic pool of nodes (client only nodes) that when you add a new client node to a cluster, that node is added to the connection pool, but when you add master or data nodes, those aren't used, one of the ways that people would do that is by using an external Load Balancer. I think that it will be great for the Java REST client to be able to have a way to sniff client-only nodes. The current Transport Client doesn't do that, and actually just retrieves a list of data nodes. The reason the transport client excludes non-data nodes is to avoid sending search traffic to master only nodes (from the docs). |
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Allows users of the Low Level REST client to specify which hosts a
request should be run on. They implement the `NodeSelector` interface
or reuse a built in selector like `NOT_MASTER_ONLY` to chose which nodes
are valid. Using it looks like:
```
Request request = new Request("POST", "/foo/_search");
request.setNodeSelector(NodeSelector.NOT_MASTER_ONLY);
...
```
This introduces a new `Node` object which contains a `HttpHost` and the
metadata about the host. At this point that metadata is just `version`
and `roles` but I plan to add node attributes in a followup. The
canonical way to **get** this metadata is to use the `Sniffer` to pull
the information from the Elasticsearch cluster.
I've marked this as "breaking-java" because it breaks custom
implementations of `HostsSniffer` by renaming the interface to
`NodesSniffer` and by changing it from returning a `List<HttpHost>` to a
`List<Node>`. It *shouldn't* break anyone else though.
Because we expect to find it useful, this also implements `host_selector`
support to `do` statements in the yaml tests. Using it looks a little
like:
```
---
"example test":
- skip:
features: host_selector
- do:
host_selector:
version: " - 7.0.0" # same syntax as skip
apiname:
something: true
```
The `do` section parses the `version` string into a host selector that
uses the same version comparison logic as the `skip` section. When the
`do` section is executed it passed the off to the `RestClient`, using
the `ElasticsearchHostsSniffer` to sniff the required metadata.
The idea is to use this in mixed version tests to target a specific
version of Elasticsearch so we can be sure about the deprecation
logging though we don't currently have any examples that need it. We do,
however, have at least one open pull request that requires something
like this to properly test it.
Closes elastic#21888 (kind of, it isn't in the high level client, but we'll do
that in a followup)
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Allows users of the Low Level REST client to specify which hosts a
request should be run on. They implement the `NodeSelector` interface
or reuse a built in selector like `NOT_MASTER_ONLY` to chose which nodes
are valid. Using it looks like:
```
Request request = new Request("POST", "/foo/_search");
RequestOptions options = request.getOptions().toBuilder();
options.setNodeSelector(NodeSelector.NOT_MASTER_ONLY);
request.setOptions(options);
...
```
This introduces a new `Node` object which contains a `HttpHost` and the
metadata about the host. At this point that metadata is just `version`
and `roles` but I plan to add node attributes in a followup. The
canonical way to **get** this metadata is to use the `Sniffer` to pull
the information from the Elasticsearch cluster.
I've marked this as "breaking-java" because it breaks custom
implementations of `HostsSniffer` by renaming the interface to
`NodesSniffer` and by changing it from returning a `List<HttpHost>` to a
`List<Node>`. It *shouldn't* break anyone else though.
Because we expect to find it useful, this also implements `host_selector`
support to `do` statements in the yaml tests. Using it looks a little
like:
```
---
"example test":
- skip:
features: host_selector
- do:
host_selector:
version: " - 7.0.0" # same syntax as skip
apiname:
something: true
```
The `do` section parses the `version` string into a host selector that
uses the same version comparison logic as the `skip` section. When the
`do` section is executed it passed the off to the `RestClient`, using
the `ElasticsearchHostsSniffer` to sniff the required metadata.
The idea is to use this in mixed version tests to target a specific
version of Elasticsearch so we can be sure about the deprecation
logging though we don't currently have any examples that need it. We do,
however, have at least one open pull request that requires something
like this to properly test it.
Closes #21888
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Allows users of the Low Level REST client to specify which hosts a
request should be run on. They implement the `NodeSelector` interface
or reuse a built in selector like `NOT_MASTER_ONLY` to chose which nodes
are valid. Using it looks like:
```
Request request = new Request("POST", "/foo/_search");
RequestOptions options = request.getOptions().toBuilder();
options.setNodeSelector(NodeSelector.NOT_MASTER_ONLY);
request.setOptions(options);
...
```
This introduces a new `Node` object which contains a `HttpHost` and the
metadata about the host. At this point that metadata is just `version`
and `roles` but I plan to add node attributes in a followup. The
canonical way to **get** this metadata is to use the `Sniffer` to pull
the information from the Elasticsearch cluster.
I've marked this as "breaking-java" because it breaks custom
implementations of `HostsSniffer` by renaming the interface to
`NodesSniffer` and by changing it from returning a `List<HttpHost>` to a
`List<Node>`. It *shouldn't* break anyone else though.
Because we expect to find it useful, this also implements `host_selector`
support to `do` statements in the yaml tests. Using it looks a little
like:
```
---
"example test":
- skip:
features: host_selector
- do:
host_selector:
version: " - 7.0.0" # same syntax as skip
apiname:
something: true
```
The `do` section parses the `version` string into a host selector that
uses the same version comparison logic as the `skip` section. When the
`do` section is executed it passed the off to the `RestClient`, using
the `ElasticsearchHostsSniffer` to sniff the required metadata.
The idea is to use this in mixed version tests to target a specific
version of Elasticsearch so we can be sure about the deprecation
logging though we don't currently have any examples that need it. We do,
however, have at least one open pull request that requires something
like this to properly test it.
Closes #21888
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Describe the feature:
Add option to use custom node selection logic for sending requests only to certain nodes like in the javascript, perl, etc clients. For example, allow sniffing of the cluster but send requests only to client nodes within the cluster.
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