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Skip indices that have an index refresh block
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/*
* Copyright Elasticsearch B.V. and/or licensed to Elasticsearch B.V. under one
* or more contributor license agreements. Licensed under the "Elastic License
* 2.0", the "GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 only", and the "Server Side
* Public License v 1"; you may not use this file except in compliance with, at
* your election, the "Elastic License 2.0", the "GNU Affero General Public
* License v3.0 only", or the "Server Side Public License, v 1".
*/

package org.elasticsearch.search;

import org.elasticsearch.action.index.IndexRequestBuilder;
import org.elasticsearch.action.search.ClosePointInTimeRequest;
import org.elasticsearch.action.search.OpenPointInTimeRequest;
import org.elasticsearch.action.search.SearchRequest;
import org.elasticsearch.action.search.TransportClosePointInTimeAction;
import org.elasticsearch.action.search.TransportOpenPointInTimeAction;
import org.elasticsearch.cluster.ClusterState;
import org.elasticsearch.cluster.block.ClusterBlocks;
import org.elasticsearch.cluster.metadata.IndexMetadata;
import org.elasticsearch.cluster.metadata.ProjectId;
import org.elasticsearch.cluster.node.DiscoveryNode;
import org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.ClusterService;
import org.elasticsearch.common.bytes.BytesReference;
import org.elasticsearch.core.TimeValue;
import org.elasticsearch.index.query.QueryBuilders;
import org.elasticsearch.search.builder.PointInTimeBuilder;
import org.elasticsearch.search.builder.SearchSourceBuilder;
import org.elasticsearch.test.ESIntegTestCase;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import static org.elasticsearch.cluster.block.ClusterBlocks.EMPTY_CLUSTER_BLOCK;
import static org.elasticsearch.test.ClusterServiceUtils.setState;
import static org.elasticsearch.test.hamcrest.ElasticsearchAssertions.assertHitCount;

public class SearchWithIndexBlocksIT extends ESIntegTestCase {

public void testSearchIndicesWithIndexRefreshBlocks() {
List<String> indices = createIndices();
Map<String, Integer> numDocsPerIndex = indexDocuments(indices);
List<String> unblockedIndices = addIndexRefreshBlockToSomeIndices(indices);

int expectedHits = 0;
for (String index : unblockedIndices) {
expectedHits += numDocsPerIndex.get(index);
}

assertHitCount(prepareSearch().setQuery(QueryBuilders.matchAllQuery()), expectedHits);
}

public void testOpenPITWithIndexRefreshBlock() {
List<String> indices = createIndices();
Map<String, Integer> numDocsPerIndex = indexDocuments(indices);
List<String> unblockedIndices = addIndexRefreshBlockToSomeIndices(indices);

int expectedHits = 0;
for (String index : unblockedIndices) {
expectedHits += numDocsPerIndex.get(index);
}

BytesReference pitId = null;
try {
OpenPointInTimeRequest openPITRequest = new OpenPointInTimeRequest(indices.toArray(new String[0])).keepAlive(
TimeValue.timeValueSeconds(10)
).allowPartialSearchResults(true);
pitId = client().execute(TransportOpenPointInTimeAction.TYPE, openPITRequest).actionGet().getPointInTimeId();
SearchRequest searchRequest = new SearchRequest().source(
new SearchSourceBuilder().pointInTimeBuilder(new PointInTimeBuilder(pitId).setKeepAlive(TimeValue.timeValueSeconds(10)))
);
assertHitCount(client().search(searchRequest), expectedHits);
} finally {
if (pitId != null) {
client().execute(TransportClosePointInTimeAction.TYPE, new ClosePointInTimeRequest(pitId)).actionGet();
}
}
}

private List<String> createIndices() {
int numIndices = randomIntBetween(1, 3);
List<String> indices = new ArrayList<>();
for (int i = 0; i < numIndices; i++) {
indices.add("test" + i);
createIndex("test" + i);
}
return indices;
}

private Map<String, Integer> indexDocuments(List<String> indices) {
Map<String, Integer> numDocsPerIndex = new HashMap<>();
List<IndexRequestBuilder> indexRequests = new ArrayList<>();
for (String index : indices) {
int numDocs = randomIntBetween(0, 10);
numDocsPerIndex.put(index, numDocs);
for (int i = 0; i < numDocs; i++) {
indexRequests.add(prepareIndex(index).setId(String.valueOf(i)).setSource("field", "value"));
}
}
indexRandom(true, indexRequests);

return numDocsPerIndex;
}

private List<String> addIndexRefreshBlockToSomeIndices(List<String> indices) {
List<String> unblockedIndices = new ArrayList<>();
var blocksBuilder = ClusterBlocks.builder().blocks(EMPTY_CLUSTER_BLOCK);
for (String index : indices) {
boolean blockIndex = randomBoolean();
if (blockIndex) {
blocksBuilder.addIndexBlock(ProjectId.DEFAULT, index, IndexMetadata.INDEX_REFRESH_BLOCK);
} else {
unblockedIndices.add(index);
}
}

var dataNodes = clusterService().state().getNodes().getAllNodes();
for (DiscoveryNode dataNode : dataNodes) {
ClusterService clusterService = internalCluster().getInstance(ClusterService.class, dataNode.getName());
ClusterState currentState = clusterService.state();
ClusterState newState = ClusterState.builder(currentState).blocks(blocksBuilder).build();
setState(clusterService, newState);
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This method is not intended to be used in integration test as it overrides the current data node cluster state.

For testing the INDEX_REFRESH_BLOCK I think it makes sense to only have unit tests in stateful elasticsearch.

}

return unblockedIndices;
}
}
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Expand Up @@ -186,6 +186,12 @@ private void runCoordinatorRewritePhase() {
assert assertSearchCoordinationThread();
final List<SearchShardIterator> matchedShardLevelRequests = new ArrayList<>();
for (SearchShardIterator searchShardIterator : shardsIts) {
if (searchShardIterator.prefiltered() == false && searchShardIterator.skip()) {
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As far as I understand this is what actually skips the shards being searched. Why is this done here in the CanMatchPreFilterSearchPhase? My understanding is that we don't always use this phase, e.g. "shouldPreFilterSearchShards" returns false for all searches that are not QUERY_THEN_FETCH (and other cases). Wouldn't we still run into 503s for those cases?

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Actually, what really skips the shards for search is this code:

for (final SearchShardIterator iterator : shardsIts) {
if (iterator.skip()) {
skipped++;
} else {
iterators.add(iterator);
}
}
.

I added this check to avoid running can-match on shards that are skipped.

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This got my attention too. Is it a necessary change for this PR? I was trying to figure out how it ties to the refresh block.

// This implies the iterator was skipped due to an index level block,
// not a remote can-match run.
continue;
}

final CanMatchNodeRequest canMatchNodeRequest = new CanMatchNodeRequest(
request,
searchShardIterator.getOriginalIndices().indicesOptions(),
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Expand Up @@ -41,19 +41,28 @@ public final class SearchShardIterator implements Comparable<SearchShardIterator

/**
* Creates a {@link SearchShardIterator} instance that iterates over a subset of the given shards
* this the a given <code>shardId</code>.
* for a given <code>shardId</code>.
*
* @param clusterAlias the alias of the cluster where the shard is located
* @param shardId shard id of the group
* @param shards shards to iterate
* @param originalIndices the indices that the search request originally related to (before any rewriting happened)
* @param skip if true, then this group won't have matches (due to an index level block),
* and it can be safely skipped from the search
*/
public SearchShardIterator(@Nullable String clusterAlias, ShardId shardId, List<ShardRouting> shards, OriginalIndices originalIndices) {
this(clusterAlias, shardId, shards.stream().map(ShardRouting::currentNodeId).toList(), originalIndices, null, null, false, false);
public SearchShardIterator(
@Nullable String clusterAlias,
ShardId shardId,
List<ShardRouting> shards,
OriginalIndices originalIndices,
boolean skip
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skip is mutable, did we need to add a new constructor variant to mutate it?

) {
this(clusterAlias, shardId, shards.stream().map(ShardRouting::currentNodeId).toList(), originalIndices, null, null, false, skip);
}

/**
* Creates a {@link SearchShardIterator} instance that iterates over a subset of the given shards
* for a given <code>shardId</code>.
*
* @param clusterAlias the alias of the cluster where the shard is located
* @param shardId shard id of the group
Expand All @@ -62,7 +71,8 @@ public SearchShardIterator(@Nullable String clusterAlias, ShardId shardId, List<
* @param searchContextId the point-in-time specified for this group if exists
* @param searchContextKeepAlive the time interval that data nodes should extend the keep alive of the point-in-time
* @param prefiltered if true, then this group already executed the can_match phase
* @param skip if true, then this group won't have matches, and it can be safely skipped from the search
* @param skip if true, then this group won't have matches (due to can match, or an index level block),
* and it can be safely skipped from the search
*/
public SearchShardIterator(
@Nullable String clusterAlias,
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assert searchContextKeepAlive == null || searchContextId != null;
this.prefiltered = prefiltered;
this.skip = skip;
assert skip == false || prefiltered : "only prefiltered shards are skip-able";
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I am trying to remember what prefiltered was all about. I think it was only for bw comp, to support two variants of the search shards API, the new one that supports coordinator rewrite, and the other one that does not.

Looking at the code, i wonder if we can remove prefiltered actually (as a follow up?) in main.

But my actual question is: why remove this assert?

}

/**
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Expand Up @@ -148,6 +148,9 @@ public class TransportSearchAction extends HandledTransportAction<SearchRequest,
Property.NodeScope
);

// Marker to indicate this index's shards should be skipped in a search
private static final OriginalIndices SKIPPED_INDICES = new OriginalIndices(Strings.EMPTY_ARRAY, IndicesOptions.strictExpandOpen());

private final ThreadPool threadPool;
private final ClusterService clusterService;
private final TransportService transportService;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -234,6 +237,10 @@ private Map<String, OriginalIndices> buildPerIndexOriginalIndices(
for (String index : indices) {
if (hasBlocks) {
blocks.indexBlockedRaiseException(projectId, ClusterBlockLevel.READ, index);
if (blocks.hasIndexBlock(projectState.projectId(), index, IndexMetadata.INDEX_REFRESH_BLOCK)) {
res.put(index, SKIPPED_INDICES);
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I wonder if we are doing the filtering in the right place. It is a bit counter intuitive that we would resolve the shards given the indices and the skip some of them. Can we not filter the indices to start with? Maybe that removes the need to use that SKIPPED_INDICES marker thing too :)

Do we need to check for this block only in the search API?

By the way, something probably needs to happen in ES|QL too around this (does not need to be in this PR, but I am raising the need to track that).

continue;
}
}

String[] aliases = indexNameExpressionResolver.allIndexAliases(projectState.metadata(), index, indicesAndAliases);
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -589,7 +596,7 @@ public void onFailure(Exception e) {}
);
}

static void adjustSearchType(SearchRequest searchRequest, boolean singleShard) {
static void adjustSearchType(SearchRequest searchRequest, boolean oneOrZeroShardsToSearch) {
// if there's a kNN search, always use DFS_QUERY_THEN_FETCH
if (searchRequest.hasKnnSearch()) {
searchRequest.searchType(DFS_QUERY_THEN_FETCH);
Expand All @@ -604,7 +611,7 @@ static void adjustSearchType(SearchRequest searchRequest, boolean singleShard) {
}

// optimize search type for cases where there is only one shard group to search on
if (singleShard) {
if (oneOrZeroShardsToSearch) {
// if we only have one group, then we always want Q_T_F, no need for DFS, and no need to do THEN since we hit one shard
searchRequest.searchType(QUERY_THEN_FETCH);
}
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1305,7 +1312,7 @@ private void executeSearch(

Map<String, Float> concreteIndexBoosts = resolveIndexBoosts(searchRequest, projectState.cluster());

adjustSearchType(searchRequest, shardIterators.size() == 1);
adjustSearchType(searchRequest, oneOrZeroShardsToSearch(shardIterators));

final DiscoveryNodes nodes = projectState.cluster().nodes();
BiFunction<String, String, Transport.Connection> connectionLookup = buildConnectionLookup(
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1338,6 +1345,33 @@ private void executeSearch(
);
}

/**
* Determines if only one (or zero) search shard iterators will be searched.
* (At this point, iterators may be marked as skipped due to index level blockers).
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replace blockers with blocks?

* We expect skipped iterators to be unlikely, so returning fast after we see more
* than one "not skipped" is an intended optimization.
*
* @param searchShardIterators all the shard iterators derived from indices being searched
* @return true if there are no more than one shard iterators, or if there are no more than
* one not marked to skip
*/
private boolean oneOrZeroShardsToSearch(List<SearchShardIterator> searchShardIterators) {
if (searchShardIterators.size() <= 1) {
return true;
}

int notSkippedCount = 0;
for (SearchShardIterator searchShardIterator : searchShardIterators) {
if (searchShardIterator.skip() == false) {
notSkippedCount++;
if (notSkippedCount > 1) {
return false;
}
}
}
return true;
}

Executor asyncSearchExecutor(final String[] indices) {
boolean seenSystem = false;
boolean seenCritical = false;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1890,7 +1924,13 @@ List<SearchShardIterator> getLocalShardsIterator(
final ShardId shardId = shardRouting.shardId();
OriginalIndices finalIndices = originalIndices.get(shardId.getIndex().getName());
assert finalIndices != null;
list[i++] = new SearchShardIterator(clusterAlias, shardId, shardRouting.getShardRoutings(), finalIndices);
list[i++] = new SearchShardIterator(
clusterAlias,
shardId,
shardRouting.getShardRoutings(),
finalIndices,
finalIndices == SKIPPED_INDICES
);
}
// the returned list must support in-place sorting, so this is the most memory efficient we can do here
return Arrays.asList(list);
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Expand Up @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ private AbstractSearchAsyncAction<SearchPhaseResult> createAction(
null,
request,
listener,
Collections.singletonList(new SearchShardIterator(null, new ShardId("index", "_na", 0), Collections.emptyList(), null)),
Collections.singletonList(new SearchShardIterator(null, new ShardId("index", "_na", 0), Collections.emptyList(), null, false)),
timeProvider,
ClusterState.EMPTY_STATE,
null,
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -153,7 +153,8 @@ public void testBuildShardSearchTransportRequest() {
clusterAlias,
new ShardId(new Index("name", "foo"), 1),
Collections.emptyList(),
new OriginalIndices(new String[] { "name", "name1" }, IndicesOptions.strictExpand())
new OriginalIndices(new String[] { "name", "name1" }, IndicesOptions.strictExpand()),
false
);
ShardSearchRequest shardSearchTransportRequest = action.buildShardSearchRequest(iterator, 10);
assertEquals(IndicesOptions.strictExpand(), shardSearchTransportRequest.indicesOptions());
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Expand Up @@ -640,7 +640,8 @@ public void testSkipUnavailableSearchShards() throws InterruptedException {
null,
new ShardId(index, 0),
Collections.emptyList(),
originalIndices
originalIndices,
false
);
// Skip all the shards
searchShardIterator.skip(true);
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -760,7 +761,7 @@ static List<SearchShardIterator> getShardsIter(
}
Collections.shuffle(started, random());
started.addAll(initializing);
list.add(new SearchShardIterator(null, new ShardId(index, i), started, originalIndices));
list.add(new SearchShardIterator(null, new ShardId(index, i), started, originalIndices, false));
}
return list;
}
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