serialize suggestion responses as named writeables

client/rest-high-level/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/client/RestHighLevelClient.java

@@ -163,8 +163,11 @@
 import org.elasticsearch.search.aggregations.pipeline.derivative.ParsedDerivative;
 import org.elasticsearch.search.suggest.Suggest;
 import org.elasticsearch.search.suggest.completion.CompletionSuggestion;
+import org.elasticsearch.search.suggest.completion.CompletionSuggestionBuilder;
 import org.elasticsearch.search.suggest.phrase.PhraseSuggestion;
+import org.elasticsearch.search.suggest.phrase.PhraseSuggestionBuilder;
 import org.elasticsearch.search.suggest.term.TermSuggestion;
+import org.elasticsearch.search.suggest.term.TermSuggestionBuilder;
 
 import java.io.Closeable;
 import java.io.IOException;
@@ -1141,11 +1144,11 @@ static List<NamedXContentRegistry.Entry> getDefaultNamedXContents() {
         List<NamedXContentRegistry.Entry> entries = map.entrySet().stream()
                 .map(entry -> new NamedXContentRegistry.Entry(Aggregation.class, new ParseField(entry.getKey()), entry.getValue()))
                 .collect(Collectors.toList());
-        entries.add(new NamedXContentRegistry.Entry(Suggest.Suggestion.class, new ParseField(TermSuggestion.NAME),
+        entries.add(new NamedXContentRegistry.Entry(Suggest.Suggestion.class, new ParseField(TermSuggestionBuilder.SUGGESTION_NAME),
                 (parser, context) -> TermSuggestion.fromXContent(parser, (String)context)));
-        entries.add(new NamedXContentRegistry.Entry(Suggest.Suggestion.class, new ParseField(PhraseSuggestion.NAME),
+        entries.add(new NamedXContentRegistry.Entry(Suggest.Suggestion.class, new ParseField(PhraseSuggestionBuilder.SUGGESTION_NAME),
                 (parser, context) -> PhraseSuggestion.fromXContent(parser, (String)context)));
-        entries.add(new NamedXContentRegistry.Entry(Suggest.Suggestion.class, new ParseField(CompletionSuggestion.NAME),
+        entries.add(new NamedXContentRegistry.Entry(Suggest.Suggestion.class, new ParseField(CompletionSuggestionBuilder.SUGGESTION_NAME),
                 (parser, context) -> CompletionSuggestion.fromXContent(parser, (String)context)));
         return entries;
     }

docs/reference/release-notes/7.0.0-alpha1.asciidoc

@@ -21,4 +21,10 @@ Aggregations::
 * The Percentiles and PercentileRanks aggregations now return `null` in the REST response,
   instead of `NaN`.  This makes it consistent with the rest of the aggregations.  Note:
   this only applies to the REST response, the java objects continue to return `NaN` (also
-  consistent with other aggregations)
+  consistent with other aggregations)
+
+Suggesters::
+* Plugins that register suggesters can now define their own types of suggestions and must
+  explicitly indicate the type of suggestion that they produce. Existing plugins will
+  require changes to their plugin registration. See the `custom-suggester` example
+  plugin {pull}30284[#30284]

plugins/examples/custom-suggester/build.gradle

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to Elasticsearch under one or more contributor
+ * license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ * ownership. Elasticsearch licenses this file to you under
+ * the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+ * not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+apply plugin: 'elasticsearch.esplugin'
+
+esplugin {
+    name 'custom-suggester'
+    description 'An example plugin showing how to write and register a custom suggester'
+    classname 'org.elasticsearch.example.customsuggester.CustomSuggesterPlugin'
+}
+
+integTestCluster {
+    numNodes = 2
+}
+
+// this plugin has no unit tests, only rest tests
+tasks.test.enabled = false

plugins/examples/custom-suggester/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/example/customsuggester/CustomSuggester.java

@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to Elasticsearch under one or more contributor
+ * license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ * ownership. Elasticsearch licenses this file to you under
+ * the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+ * not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.elasticsearch.example.customsuggester;
+
+import org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.CharsRefBuilder;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.text.Text;
+import org.elasticsearch.search.suggest.Suggest;
+import org.elasticsearch.search.suggest.Suggester;
+
+import java.util.Locale;
+
+public class CustomSuggester extends Suggester<CustomSuggestionContext> {
+
+    // This is a pretty dumb implementation which returns the original text + fieldName + custom config option + 12 or 123
+    @Override
+    public Suggest.Suggestion<? extends Suggest.Suggestion.Entry<? extends Suggest.Suggestion.Entry.Option>> innerExecute(
+        String name,
+        CustomSuggestionContext suggestion,
+        IndexSearcher searcher,
+        CharsRefBuilder spare) {
+
+        // Get the suggestion context
+        String text = suggestion.getText().utf8ToString();
+
+        // create two suggestions with 12 and 123 appended
+        CustomSuggestion response = new CustomSuggestion(name, suggestion.getSize(), "suggestion-dummy-value");
+
+        CustomSuggestion.Entry entry = new CustomSuggestion.Entry(new Text(text), 0, text.length(), "entry-dummy-value");
+
+        String firstOption =
+            String.format(Locale.ROOT, "%s-%s-%s-%s", text, suggestion.getField(), suggestion.options.get("suffix"), "12");
+        CustomSuggestion.Entry.Option option12 = new CustomSuggestion.Entry.Option(new Text(firstOption), 0.9f, "option-dummy-value-1");
+        entry.addOption(option12);
+
+        String secondOption =
+            String.format(Locale.ROOT, "%s-%s-%s-%s", text, suggestion.getField(), suggestion.options.get("suffix"), "123");
+        CustomSuggestion.Entry.Option option123 = new CustomSuggestion.Entry.Option(new Text(secondOption), 0.8f, "option-dummy-value-2");
+        entry.addOption(option123);
+
+        response.addTerm(entry);
+
+        return response;
+    }
+}

plugins/examples/custom-suggester/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/example/customsuggester/CustomSuggesterPlugin.java

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to Elasticsearch under one or more contributor
+ * license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ * ownership. Elasticsearch licenses this file to you under
+ * the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+ * not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.elasticsearch.example.customsuggester;
+
+import org.elasticsearch.plugins.Plugin;
+import org.elasticsearch.plugins.SearchPlugin;
+
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.List;
+
+public class CustomSuggesterPlugin extends Plugin implements SearchPlugin {
+    @Override
+    public List<SearchPlugin.SuggesterSpec<?>> getSuggesters() {
+        return Collections.singletonList(
+            new SearchPlugin.SuggesterSpec<>(
+                CustomSuggestionBuilder.SUGGESTION_NAME,
+                CustomSuggestionBuilder::new,
+                CustomSuggestionBuilder::fromXContent,
+                CustomSuggestion::new
+            )
+        );
+    }
+}