Operations on virtual indices
The plugin supports the following operations on virtual indices:
- get mapping
- get field capabilities
- search
- msearch
- get
- mget
Search requests involving a mixture of virtual and normal Elasticsearch indices (e.g. when using a wildcard) are not supported and will be rejected; it is however possible to issue msearch requests containing requests on normal Elasticsearch indices and virtual indices.
When creating a virtual index, the plugin will create an empty Elasticsearch index for interoperability with Search Guard and Elastic X-Pack; if an Elasticsearch index with the same name as the virtual index already exists and it is not empty, the virtual index creation will fail.
When deleting a virtual index, the corresponding Elasticsearch index will not be removed.