Greetings, I wanted to discuss a bit about my update to the elasticgeo plugin.
The alias / short name function in the elasticgeo plugin does not seem to be working from what I can tell, as reported in [GEOT-6575] <https://osgeo-org.atlassian.net/browse/GEOT-6575>. I will break down what is happening and what I plan to do here for transparency. *Aliasing* The aliasing feature expects you have already setup the alias in elasticsearch. This might be considered "working properly", but seemed misleading to me when you define your aliases in GeoServer, but it will fail if the alias was not setup in elasticsearch. I am considering having the plugin add the alias you define if it isn't found, as well as change or remove the alias when you do that in the plugin. I could keep track of the aliases we've added within the plugin to ensure we only remove it if we added it. My main concern here is if this is overstepping what the plugin should be doing. If nothing else, I'll update documentation to explain this. *Short Names* As far as I can tell, this is an outdated elasticsearch concept which was removed in version 2.0 <https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/2.1/breaking_20_mapping_changes.html#_fields_cannot_be_referenced_by_short_name>. I don't think it's possible anymore. Considering how old it is, I am inclined to remove this functionality altogether and not support this elasticsearch 1.x functionality. Aliases effectively accomplish the same thing anyway. I welcome any input here, especially regarding aliasing. Cheers, Travis
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