The Elasticsearch API Specification provides the contract for communication between client and server components within the Elasticsearch stack. With almost 500 API endpoints and around 3000 data types across the entire API surface, this project is a vitally important part of sustaining our engineering efforts at scale.
The repository has the following structure:
This JSON representation is formally defined by a set of TypeScript definitions (a meta-model) that also explains the various properties and their values.
For generating the JSON representation and running the validation code you need to install and configure Node.js in your development environment.
You can install Node.js with nvm
:
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.40.1/install.sh | bash
Once the installation is completed, install Node.js with nvm
:
# this command will install the version configured in .nvmrc nvm installHow to generate the JSON representation
# clone the project
$ git clone https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-specification.git
# install the dependencies
$ make setup
# generate the JSON representation
$ make generate
# the generated output can be found in ./output/schema/schema.json
$ cat output/schema/schema.json
How to generate the OpenAPI representation
Follow the steps to generate the JSON representation, then:
# Generate the OpenAPI representation
$ make transform-to-openapi
To generate the JSON representation that is used for documentation purposes, the commands are different:
# Generate the OpenAPI files
$ make transform-to-openapi-for-docs
# Apply fixes
$ make overlay-docs
# The generated output can be found in ./output/openapi/
An interactive viewer for the Elasticsearch specification is available here.
See CONTRIBUTING.md
Usage:
make <target>
validate Validate a given endpoint request or response
validate-no-cache Validate a given endpoint request or response without local cache
generate Generate the output spec
compile Compile the specification
license-check Add the license headers to the files
license-add Add the license headers to the files
spec-format-check Check specification formatting rules
spec-format-fix Format/fix the specification according to the formatting rules
spec-dangling-types Generate the dangling types rreport
setup Install dependencies for contrib target
clean-dep Clean npm dependencies
transform-expand-generics Create a new schema with all generics expanded
transform-to-openapi Generate the OpenAPI definition from the compiled schema
filter-for-serverless Generate the serverless version from the compiled schema
dump-routes Create a new schema with all generics expanded
contrib Pre contribution target
lint-docs Lint the OpenAPI documents
lint-docs-serverless Lint only the serverless OpenAPI document
help Display help
Structure of the JSON representation
The JSON representation is formally defined as TypeScript definitions. Refer to them for the full details. It is an object with two top level keys:
The first one, types
, contains all the type definitions from the specification, such as IndexRequest
or MainError
, while the second one, endpoints
, contains every endpoint of Elasticsearch and the respective type mapping. For example:
The example above represents the index request, inside the endpoints
array you can find the API name and the type mappings under request.name
and response.name
. The respective type definitons can be found inside the types
array.
In some cases an endpoint might be defined, but there is no a type definition yet, in such case the request
and response
value will be null
.
The specification is validated daily by the client-flight-recorder project. The validation result can be found here.
Validate the specification in your machineThe following step only apply if you don't have ~/.elastic/github.token
in place.
Create GitHub token to allow authentication with Vault.
Generate new token
.repo
and read:org
scopes.~/.elastic/github.token
and paste the GitHub token into it.chmod 600 ~/.elastic/github.token
You can see here how to generate a token.
Once you have configured the environment, run the following commands:
git clone https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-specification.git git clone https://github.com/elastic/clients-flight-recorder.git cd elasticsearch-specification # this will validate the xpack.info request type against the main branch of Elasticsearch make validate api=xpack.info type=request branch=main # this will validate the xpack.info request and response types against the 8.15 branch make validate api=xpack.info branch=8.15 # this will validate the xpack.info and search request and response types against the 8.15 branch make validate api=xpack.info,search branch=8.15
The last command above will install all the dependencies and run, download the test recordings and finally validate the specification. If you need to download the recordings again, run make validate-no-cache api=xpack.info type=request branch=main
.
Once you see the errors, you can fix the original definition in /specification
and then run the command again until the types validator does not trigger any new error. Finally open a pull request with your changes. Please open it from a branch in the repository, and not from a fork.
You can find a report of the main
branch here.
When you define a property the syntax is propertyName: propertyType
. By default a property is required to exist. If you know that a property will not always be there, you can add a question mark just before the column:
propertyRequired: string propertyOptional?: stringA definition is missing, how do I add it?
See here.
A definition is not correct, how do I fix it?All the definitons are inside /specification
folder, search the bad defintion and update it, you can find above how to run the validation of the spec.
See here.
An endpoint definition is not correct, how do I fix it?All the endpoint definitons are inside /specification/_json_spec
folder, which contains a series of JSON files taken directly from the Elasticsearch rest-api-spec. You should copy from there the updated endpoint defintion and change it here.
Very likely the recordings on your machine are stale, rerun the validation with the validate-no-cache
make target.
You should pull the latest change from the client-flight-recorder
as well.
cd client-flight-recorder git pullWhere do I find the generated test?
Everytime you run make validate
script, a series of test will be generated and dumped on disk. You can find the failed tests in clients-flight-recorder/scripts/types-validator/workbench
. The content of this folder is a series of recorded responses from Elasticsearch wrapped inside an helper that verifies if the type definiton is correct.
Any editor is fine, but to have a better development experience it should be configured to work with TypeScript. Visual Studio Code and IntelliJ IDEA come with TypeScript support out of the box.
Is there a complete example of the process?Yes, take a look here.
realpath: command not foundThe validation script uses realpath which may be not present in your system. If you are using MacOS, run the following command to fix the issue:
I need to modify the compiler, help!Take a look at the compiler documentation.
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