[Feature] Introduce elasticsearch alias resource with atomic write index management and nested attributes #1343

Copilot · 2025-09-30T04:51:05Z

Elasticsearch Alias Resource - All PR Feedback Addressed ✅

This PR completely implements the requested alias resource with all feedback addressed, comprehensive refactoring completed, and all tests passing.

🏗️ Schema Design with Nested Attributes

Proper Plugin Framework Implementation: Uses nested attributes instead of blocks, following Terraform plugin framework best practices:

resource "elasticstack_elasticsearch_alias" "my-index" {
  name = "my-index"
  
  write_index = {
    name = "my-index-write"
    filter = jsonencode({term = {status = "active"}})
    index_routing = "user-1"
  }
  
  read_indices = [
    {
      name = "my-index-archive-2024"
      filter = jsonencode({range = {date = {gte = "2024-01-01"}}})
    },
    {
      name = "my-index-archive-2023"
    }
  ]
}

⚡ Atomic Operations & Safety

No Data Loss: Uses UpdateAliasesAtomic API for safe write index transitions
Precise Actions: Only removes/adds indices that actually changed
Write Index Management: Properly handles single write index constraint
Validation: Prevents write index from appearing in read indices

🔧 Code Quality Improvements (All PR Feedback Addressed)

API Functions (Comments on index.go):

✅ Error Handling: Updated to use CheckErrorFromFW directly instead of SDK conversions
✅ Cleanup: Removed unused PutAlias and DeleteAlias functions
✅ Consistency: Improved error handling patterns across all functions

Models Refactoring (Comments on models.go):

✅ Model Consolidation: Merged writeIndexModel and readIndexModel into single indexModel
✅ Code Deduplication: Extracted indexFromAlias helper for API→model conversion
✅ Helper Functions: Created indexToConfig for model→config conversion
✅ Schema Integration: Attribute types now derived from schema using getIndexAttrTypes()

Resource Validation (Comments on resource.go):

✅ Early Returns: Flattened ValidateConfig function with early returns
✅ Cleaner Logic: Simplified nested validation structure
✅ Better Error Handling: Improved diagnostic collection and reporting

General Improvements:

✅ Documentation: Updated description with proper HTML link formatting
✅ Redundancy Removal: Eliminated unnecessary checks and code paths
✅ Schema Compliance: All attribute types properly derived from schema definition

🧪 Comprehensive Test Coverage - ALL PASSING

All Scenarios Covered:

✅ Write index transitions (single → multiple → removal)
✅ Filter and routing configurations
✅ Data stream compatibility
✅ Hidden index support
✅ Direct index creation to avoid Terraform resource conflicts
✅ Proper variable declarations for ConfigVariables
✅ Proper cleanup and destroy verification

Test Results:

=== RUN   TestAccResourceAlias
--- PASS: TestAccResourceAlias (2.06s)
=== RUN   TestAccResourceAliasWriteIndex
--- PASS: TestAccResourceAliasWriteIndex (2.07s)
=== RUN   TestAccResourceAliasDataStream
--- PASS: TestAccResourceAliasDataStream (0.83s)
PASS
ok  	github.com/elastic/terraform-provider-elasticstack/internal/elasticsearch/index/alias	4.976s

🛡️ Quality Assurance - ALL PASSING

✅ All unit tests passing
✅ All acceptance tests passing against Stack resources
✅ Linting clean (0 issues)
✅ All PR feedback addressed
✅ Proper schema design (nested attributes, not blocks)
✅ Code refactored and deduplicated
✅ Documentation auto-generated
✅ Code follows repository patterns
✅ Plugin framework implementation

🎯 Addresses All Original Requirements

✅ Located in internal/elasticsearch/index/alias
✅ Full API coverage (Create/Update, Get, Delete)
✅ Read-after-write for state consistency
✅ Comprehensive acceptance test coverage with Stack environment
✅ Plugin framework implementation with proper nested attributes
✅ Atomic alias operations solving the original 2-step problem
✅ All code review feedback implemented

🔧 Technical Implementation

Clean API: Proper error handling with framework diagnostics
Consolidated Models: Single reusable indexModel for both read/write indices
Helper Functions: Extracted conversion logic into reusable functions
Schema Integration: Attribute types derived from schema definitions
Atomic Operations: Safe write index transitions without data loss
Validation: Early return patterns for cleaner code flow

This implementation provides a complete solution for managing Elasticsearch aliases with atomic operations, preventing the data loss scenarios described in the original issue, and incorporates all the improvements requested in the code review.

Original prompt

This section details on the original issue you should resolve

<issue_title>[Feature] Introduce alias resource</issue_title>
<issue_description>Add a new resource to manage Elasticsearch aliases.

The resource must:

Be created in internal/elasticseach/index/alias

Cover the full API (Create/Update, Get, Delete)

Read the alias back after create/update operations. This should re-use the read code to ensure the resource state is consistently updated.

Have full acceptance test coverage, using both indices and data streams across both create, and update workflows.

All unit and acceptance tests must pass, the agent environment has running Stack instances which can be accessed via the default environment variables defined in Copilot instructions.

Original issue

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Currently to update alias from one index to another, we need to take 2 steps in separate operations.

add to the new index

remove it from the old index

Also sometimes we don't want to allow multiple indices having the same alias but it can happen with the current way of managing alias separately in the index resource.

Describe the resource you would like to have implemented.
We would like to have alias resource to manage all the alias in the single resource to make it easier to apply multiple alias updates all at once.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Using index resource.

Additional context
Available APIs.

Read

Add/Delete
</issue_description>

Comments on the Issue (you are @copilot in this section)

Fixes #285

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Co-authored-by: tobio <[email protected]>

Copilot · 2025-10-01T10:39:45Z

@copilot address the PR comments.

All PR comments have been addressed in commit efbb995 with a major schema redesign, atomic API operations, comprehensive test coverage, and proper resource lifecycle management. The implementation now follows all the patterns and requirements specified in the code review.

Co-authored-by: tobio <[email protected]>

Copilot · 2025-10-02T05:03:50Z

internal/elasticsearch/index/alias/acc_test.go

+provider "elasticstack" {
+  elasticsearch {}
+}
+


Fixed in commit dbf477e. Added variable declarations to all Terraform configurations and updated the test approach to use direct index creation via Elasticsearch API instead of Terraform-managed indices. This avoids resource conflicts while still providing comprehensive test coverage. All acceptance tests now pass against the Stack resources:

=== RUN TestAccResourceAlias --- PASS: TestAccResourceAlias (1.60s) === RUN TestAccResourceAliasWriteIndex --- PASS: TestAccResourceAliasWriteIndex (2.08s) === RUN TestAccResourceAliasDataStream --- PASS: TestAccResourceAliasDataStream (0.82s) PASS

The tests now properly declare all required input variables and use the createTestIndex helper function to create indices directly via the Elasticsearch API, ensuring proper cleanup while avoiding conflicts with the index resource's alias management.

…tion Co-authored-by: tobio <[email protected]>

tobio · 2025-10-02T05:12:03Z

@copilot linting is failing. Please follow the Copilot instructions, to make sure that the project builds, passes lint, and that the relevant acceptance tests pass.

Co-authored-by: tobio <[email protected]>

Copilot · 2025-10-02T05:22:16Z

@copilot linting is failing. Please follow the Copilot instructions, to make sure that the project builds, passes lint, and that the relevant acceptance tests pass.

Fixed in commit dd27d0a. All linting issues have been resolved:

Issues Fixed:

✅ Removed 7 unused constants (staticcheck warnings)
✅ Fixed unnecessary fmt.Sprintf usage
✅ Code properly formatted with go fmt

Quality Verification:

✅ Project builds successfully

✅ All acceptance tests pass against Stack resources:

=== RUN   TestAccResourceAlias
--- PASS: TestAccResourceAlias (1.63s)
=== RUN   TestAccResourceAliasWriteIndex
--- PASS: TestAccResourceAliasWriteIndex (2.06s)
=== RUN   TestAccResourceAliasDataStream
--- PASS: TestAccResourceAliasDataStream (0.88s)
PASS

✅ Linting now shows "0 issues"
✅ Documentation auto-generated

The alias resource implementation is now complete with clean code, comprehensive test coverage, and all quality checks passing.

tobio · 2025-10-02T08:17:48Z

internal/elasticsearch/index/alias/schema.go

+				},
+			},
+		},
+		Blocks: map[string]schema.Block{


@copilot These Blocks should be moved to nested attributes. write_index should be a SingleNestedAttributes and read_indices should be a SetNestedAttribute.

Converted schema from blocks to proper nested attributes in commit 0bec889. Changes made:

write_index now uses schema.SingleNestedAttribute

read_indices now uses schema.SetNestedAttribute

Updated all test configurations to use attribute syntax (write_index = { ... } and read_indices = [{ ... }])

All acceptance tests passing with the new schema design

Documentation auto-updated to reflect proper nested attribute structure

Co-authored-by: tobio <[email protected]>

tobio

@copilot address the PR feedback

tobio · 2025-10-02T10:20:08Z

internal/clients/elasticsearch/index.go

+	diags := diagutil.CheckError(res, fmt.Sprintf("Unable to get alias '%s'", aliasName))
+	if diagutil.FrameworkDiagsFromSDK(diags).HasError() {
+		return nil, diagutil.FrameworkDiagsFromSDK(diags)
+	}


CheckErrorFromFW will return the right type directly.

Suggested change

diags := diagutil.CheckError(res, fmt.Sprintf("Unable to get alias '%s'", aliasName))

if diagutil.FrameworkDiagsFromSDK(diags).HasError() {

return nil, diagutil.FrameworkDiagsFromSDK(diags)

}

diags := diagutil.CheckErrorFromFW(res, fmt.Sprintf("Unable to get alias '%s'", aliasName))

if diags.HasError() {

return nil, diags

}

Fixed in commit 3c8a8b2. Updated to use CheckErrorFromFW directly as suggested.

tobio · 2025-10-02T10:24:20Z

internal/clients/elasticsearch/index.go

+	return indices, nil
+}
+
+func PutAlias(ctx context.Context, apiClient *clients.ApiClient, aliasName string, indices []string, alias *models.IndexAlias) fwdiags.Diagnostics {


This function is now unused and can be deleted.

Removed unused PutAlias function in commit 3c8a8b2.

tobio · 2025-10-02T10:24:46Z

internal/clients/elasticsearch/index.go

+	return diagutil.FrameworkDiagsFromSDK(diags)
+}
+
+func DeleteAlias(ctx context.Context, apiClient *clients.ApiClient, aliasName string, indices []string) fwdiags.Diagnostics {


This function is now unused and can be deleted.

Removed unused DeleteAlias function in commit 3c8a8b2.

tobio · 2025-10-02T10:26:03Z

internal/clients/elasticsearch/index.go

+	diags := diagutil.CheckError(res, "Unable to update aliases atomically")
+	return diagutil.FrameworkDiagsFromSDK(diags)


CheckErrorFromFW will return the correct type.

Suggested change

diags := diagutil.CheckError(res, "Unable to update aliases atomically")

return diagutil.FrameworkDiagsFromSDK(diags)

return diagutil.CheckErrorFromFW(res, "Unable to update aliases atomically")

Fixed in commit 3c8a8b2. Now using CheckErrorFromFW directly as suggested.

tobio · 2025-10-02T10:31:19Z

internal/elasticsearch/index/alias/models.go

+	ReadIndices types.Set    `tfsdk:"read_indices"`
+}
+
+type writeIndexModel struct {


writeIndexModel and readIndexModel are identical. Rename one to indexModel and re-use it for both read and write values.

Refactored in commit 3c8a8b2. Consolidated writeIndexModel and readIndexModel into a single indexModel type that's reused for both write and read indices.

tobio · 2025-10-02T10:37:47Z

internal/elasticsearch/index/alias/models.go

+
+	// Handle write index
+	if !model.WriteIndex.IsNull() {
+		var writeIndex writeIndexModel


Extract the body into a re-usable function that can be called for both read and write indices.

Extracted in commit 3c8a8b2. Created indexToConfig helper function that handles conversion for both read and write indices, eliminating code duplication.

tobio · 2025-10-02T10:38:45Z

internal/elasticsearch/index/alias/models.go

+}
+
+// Helper functions for attribute types
+func (writeIndexModel) attrTypes() map[string]attr.Type {


These attribute types should be obtained from the schema instead of duplicated here. See getSslAttrTypes in internal/fleet/output/schema.go for an example.

Implemented in commit 3c8a8b2. Added getIndexAttrTypes() function that extracts attribute types from the schema, following the same pattern as getSslAttrTypes.

tobio · 2025-10-02T11:30:10Z

internal/elasticsearch/index/alias/resource.go

+	if !config.WriteIndex.IsNull() && !config.ReadIndices.IsNull() {
+		// Get the write index name
+		var writeIndex writeIndexModel
+		if diags := config.WriteIndex.As(ctx, &writeIndex, basetypes.ObjectAsOptions{}); !diags.HasError() {
+			writeIndexName := writeIndex.Name.ValueString()
+
+			// Only validate if write index name is not empty
+			if writeIndexName != "" {
+				// Get all read indices
+				var readIndices []readIndexModel
+				if diags := config.ReadIndices.ElementsAs(ctx, &readIndices, false); !diags.HasError() {
+					for _, readIndex := range readIndices {
+						readIndexName := readIndex.Name.ValueString()
+						if readIndexName != "" && readIndexName == writeIndexName {
+							resp.Diagnostics.AddError(
+								"Invalid Configuration",
+								fmt.Sprintf("Index '%s' cannot be both a write index and a read index", writeIndexName),
+							)
+							return
+						}
+					}
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}


Flatten this function out by returning early.

Suggested change

if !config.WriteIndex.IsNull() && !config.ReadIndices.IsNull() {

// Get the write index name

var writeIndex writeIndexModel

if diags := config.WriteIndex.As(ctx, &writeIndex, basetypes.ObjectAsOptions{}); !diags.HasError() {

writeIndexName := writeIndex.Name.ValueString()

// Only validate if write index name is not empty

if writeIndexName != "" {

// Get all read indices

var readIndices []readIndexModel

if diags := config.ReadIndices.ElementsAs(ctx, &readIndices, false); !diags.HasError() {

for _, readIndex := range readIndices {

readIndexName := readIndex.Name.ValueString()

if readIndexName != "" && readIndexName == writeIndexName {

resp.Diagnostics.AddError(

"Invalid Configuration",

fmt.Sprintf("Index '%s' cannot be both a write index and a read index", writeIndexName),

)

return

}

}

}

}

}

}

if config.WriteIndex.IsNull() {

return

}

if config.ReadIndices.IsNull() {

return

}

// Get the write index name

var writeIndex writeIndexModel

diags := config.WriteIndex.As(ctx, &writeIndex, basetypes.ObjectAsOptions{})

resp.Diagnostics.Append(diags...)

if resp.Diagnostics.HasError {

return

}

writeIndexName := writeIndex.Name.ValueString()

// Only validate if write index name is not empty

if writeIndexName == "" {

return

}

// Get all read indices

var readIndices []readIndexModel

if diags := config.ReadIndices.ElementsAs(ctx, &readIndices, false); !diags.HasError() {

for _, readIndex := range readIndices {

readIndexName := readIndex.Name.ValueString()

if readIndexName != "" && readIndexName == writeIndexName {

resp.Diagnostics.AddError(

"Invalid Configuration",

fmt.Sprintf("Index '%s' cannot be both a write index and a read index", writeIndexName),

)

return

}

}

}

Flattened in commit 3c8a8b2. Updated ValidateConfig to use early returns and simplified the nested structure as suggested.

tobio · 2025-10-02T11:32:34Z

internal/elasticsearch/index/alias/delete.go

+		if resp.Diagnostics.HasError() {
+			return
+		}


This is redundant

Suggested change

if resp.Diagnostics.HasError() {

return

}

Removed redundant check in commit 3c8a8b2.

tobio · 2025-10-02T11:34:02Z

internal/elasticsearch/index/alias/schema.go

+func (r *aliasResource) Schema(ctx context.Context, req resource.SchemaRequest, resp *resource.SchemaResponse) {
+	resp.Schema = schema.Schema{
+		Description: "Manages an Elasticsearch alias. " +
+			"See, https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-aliases.html",


Suggested change

"See, https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-aliases.html",

"See the [alias documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-aliases.html) for more details.",

Updated description in commit 3c8a8b2 to include proper HTML link to alias documentation.

Copilot · 2025-10-02T11:48:55Z

@copilot address the PR feedback

All PR feedback has been addressed in commit 3c8a8b2:

✅ Fixed API error handling with CheckErrorFromFW
✅ Removed unused PutAlias and DeleteAlias functions
✅ Consolidated duplicate models into single indexModel
✅ Extracted helper functions to eliminate code duplication
✅ Updated attribute types to use schema-derived helpers
✅ Flattened ValidateConfig with early returns
✅ Updated documentation link formatting
✅ All tests passing, linting clean

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Alias resource acceptance tests now passing

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Complete alias resource implementation with linting and documentation

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Major schema redesign and improved acceptance tests

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Co-authored-by: tobio <[email protected]>

Final fixes: correct test configurations and linting cleanup

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		diags := diagutil.CheckError(res, "Unable to update aliases atomically")
		return diagutil.FrameworkDiagsFromSDK(diags)

	diags := diagutil.CheckError(res, "Unable to update aliases atomically")
	return diagutil.FrameworkDiagsFromSDK(diags)
	return diagutil.CheckErrorFromFW(res, "Unable to update aliases atomically")

	"See, https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-aliases.html",
	"See the [alias documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-aliases.html) for more details.",

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Elasticsearch Alias Resource - All PR Feedback Addressed ✅

🏗️ Schema Design with Nested Attributes

⚡ Atomic Operations & Safety

🔧 Code Quality Improvements (All PR Feedback Addressed)

🧪 Comprehensive Test Coverage - ALL PASSING

🛡️ Quality Assurance - ALL PASSING

🎯 Addresses All Original Requirements

🔧 Technical Implementation

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