elasticsearch/elasticsearch — pull request #8534 by martijnvg (2014-11-18 13:40:54+00:00)
Title: Resolve `now` date ranges in percolator and alias filters at search time instead of parse time

Percolator queries and index alias filters are parsed once and reused as long as they exist on a node. If they contain time based range filters with a `now` expression then the alias filters and percolator queries are going to be incorrect from the moment these are constructed (depending on the date rounding).

If a `range` filter or `range` query is constructed as part of adding a percolator query or a index alias filter then these get wrapped in special query or filter wrappers that defer the resolution of now at last possible moment as apposed during parse time. In the case of the range filter a special Resolvable Filter makes sure that `now` is resolved when the DocIdSet is pulled and in the case of the range query `now` is resolved at query rewrite time. Both occur at the time the range filter or query is used as apposed when the query or filter is constructed during parse time.