Views is a way to project indices in OpenSearch, these views act as a focal point for describing the underlying data and how the data is accessed. It allows for restricting the scope and filtering the response consistently.

Resource types are a way to generically describe resources, a new section within the Security Role can express these.

Tasks

• Basic View operations in OpenSearch #3888
  • Add views to the cluster metadata schema
  • Search view
  • Get buy in from OpenSearch maintainers for experimental feature release approval in 3.x
• Resource type and identifiers in OpenSearch #3889
  • Resource interfaces
  • Resource validation patterns
  • Expose resource type & id mappings to downstream system
• Resource permission management #3890
  • Update to the security configuration for new resource section
• Documentation [DOC] Views documentation-website#6363
• End to end test cases
• Security Review

Additional Context

• Design doc
  • https://github.com/peternied/OpenSearch-1/blob/views/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/view/views-design.md
• Feature Prototype
  • OpenSearch [POC] Views for OpenSearch peternied/OpenSearch-1#139
  • Security [POC] Resource Permissions with support for Views peternied/security#14