Expose object import/export as an API

[spalger]

In order to satisfy automatically exporting dependent saved objects #27203, having the export and import logic on the server side will facilitate object manipulation.

Proposed would be three new rest API endpoints:

• POST /api/management/saved_objects/_export
• POST /api/management/saved_objects/_import
• POST /api/management/saved_objects/_resolve_import_conflicts

Notes:

• A new file format would be used to facilitate streaming (newline delimited JSON).
• The objects would be exported in an orderly manner to have dependencies first. Import API will work off this assumption.
• Migrations will execute on the imported data.

Original description

It would be great to move saved object import/export as a rest API. This requires that savedObjects can be used on the server, but seems like a worthwhile goal so that savedObject manipulation can be a bit more automated.

[babadofar]

+1

[timperrett]

+1

[jonatanblue]

+1

[rashidkpc]

Related to #5480

[ghost]

+1
would help also a lot with bootstraping a virtualized application containing elk stack

[dfederschmidt]

+1

[thethomp]

+1

[deddy83]

+1

[Dchamard]

+1

[lcarstensen]

+1, we'd like to promote saved searches alongside logging code releases in our release pipeline.

[LiberQuack]

༼ᕗຈل͜ຈ༽ᕗ +1

[raam86]

+1

[billwestfall]

+1

[Billonline]

+1!

[ivoputzer]

+1

[joebew42]

+1

[MissDali]

+1

[dmitrypol]

+1. It would be great to build these visualization objects on a dev machine, commit to git and as part of deploy process update then on test/prod environments.

[epixa]

@dmitrypol This issue is specifically for REST APIs for export/import. Follow #2310 for loading objects from the file system.

[maharg101]

could I just +1 👍

[JoaoFranciscoCarvalhoNeto]

Hey there Mike,
I can see you are working on this issue as I write this. Any updates on the issue of creating Dashboards saving the JSON file to Kibana?

[mikecote]

Hi @JoaoFranciscoCarvalhoNeto, a pull request is on its way to resolve this. I have to finish the relationships aspect first #27210.

[JoaoFranciscoCarvalhoNeto]

Thanks @mikecote! Keep up the wonderful work

[mikecote]

Fixed by #33513.