elasticsearch/elasticsearch — pull request #7856 by javanna (2014-09-24 11:57:48+00:00)
Title: Internal: split internal free context request used after scroll and search

We currently use the same internal request when we need to free the search context after a search and a scroll. The two original requests though diverged after #6933 as `SearchRequest` implements `IndicesRequest` while `SearchScrollRequest` and `ClearScrollRequest` don't. That said, with #7319 we made `SearchFreeContextRequest` implement `IndicesRequest` by making it hold the original indices taken from the original request, which are null if the free context was originated by a scroll or by a clear scroll call, and that is why original indices are optional there.

This commit introduces a separate free context request and transport action for scroll, which doesn't hold original indices. The new action is only used against nodes that expose it, the previous action name will be used for nodes older than 1.4.0.Beta1.

As a result, in 1.4 we have a new `indices:data/read/search[free_context/scroll]` action that is equivalent to the previous `indices:data/read/search[free_context]` whose request implements now `IndicesRequest` and holds the original indices coming from the original request. The original indices in the latter request can only be null during a rolling upgrade (already existing version checks make sure that serialization is bw compatible), when some nodes are still < 1.4.