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Previously this was possible, which was problematic when issuing a
request like DELETE /-myindex, which was interpretted as "delete
everything except for myindex".

Resolves #19800

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Maybe we can add a note stating that previously created indices starting with a hyphen or a + will still operate as normal?

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Sure, will add and merge

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abeyad commented Aug 17, 2016

LGTM, just left one minor comment

Previously this was possible, which was problematic when issuing a
request like `DELETE /-myindex`, which was interpretted as "delete
everything except for myindex".

Resolves elastic#19800
@dakrone dakrone force-pushed the forbid-simpleregex-in-index-name branch from c2ba25a to 6030acb Compare August 17, 2016 21:22
@dakrone dakrone merged commit 6030acb into elastic:master Aug 17, 2016
dakrone added a commit to dakrone/elasticsearch that referenced this pull request Oct 12, 2016
There is currently a very confusing behavior in Elasticsearch for the
following:

Given the indices: `[test1, test2, -foo1, -foo2]`

```
DELETE /-foo*
```

Will cause the `test1` and `test2` indices to be deleted, when what is
usually intended is to delete the `-foo1` and `-foo2` indices.

Previously we added a change in elastic#20033 to disallow creating indices
starting with `-` or `+`, which will help with this situation. However,
users may have existing indices starting with these characters.

This changes the negation to only take effect in a wildcard (`*`) has
been seen somewhere in the expression, so in order to delete `-foo1` and
`-foo2` the following now works:

```
DELETE /-foo*
```

As well as:

```
DELETE /-foo1,-foo2
```

so in order to actually delete everything except for the "foo" indices
(ie, `test1` and `test2`) a user would now issue:

```
DELETE /*,--foo*
```

Relates to elastic#19800
javanna pushed a commit to javanna/elasticsearch that referenced this pull request Oct 17, 2016
There is currently a very confusing behavior in Elasticsearch for the
following:

Given the indices: `[test1, test2, -foo1, -foo2]`

```
DELETE /-foo*
```

Will cause the `test1` and `test2` indices to be deleted, when what is
usually intended is to delete the `-foo1` and `-foo2` indices.

Previously we added a change in elastic#20033 to disallow creating indices
starting with `-` or `+`, which will help with this situation. However,
users may have existing indices starting with these characters.

This changes the negation to only take effect in a wildcard (`*`) has
been seen somewhere in the expression, so in order to delete `-foo1` and
`-foo2` the following now works:

```
DELETE /-foo*
```

As well as:

```
DELETE /-foo1,-foo2
```

so in order to actually delete everything except for the "foo" indices
(ie, `test1` and `test2`) a user would now issue:

```
DELETE /*,--foo*
```

Relates to elastic#19800
javanna pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 18, 2016
…20898)

* Only negate index expression on all indices with preceding wildcard

There is currently a very confusing behavior in Elasticsearch for the
following:

Given the indices: `[test1, test2, -foo1, -foo2]`

```
DELETE /-foo*
```

Will cause the `test1` and `test2` indices to be deleted, when what is
usually intended is to delete the `-foo1` and `-foo2` indices.

Previously we added a change in #20033 to disallow creating indices
starting with `-` or `+`, which will help with this situation. However,
users may have existing indices starting with these characters.

This changes the negation to only take effect in a wildcard (`*`) has
been seen somewhere in the expression, so in order to delete `-foo1` and
`-foo2` the following now works:

```
DELETE /-foo*
```

As well as:

```
DELETE /-foo1,-foo2
```

so in order to actually delete everything except for the "foo" indices
(ie, `test1` and `test2`) a user would now issue:

```
DELETE /*,--foo*
```

Relates to #19800
javanna pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 18, 2016
…20898)

* Only negate index expression on all indices with preceding wildcard

There is currently a very confusing behavior in Elasticsearch for the
following:

Given the indices: `[test1, test2, -foo1, -foo2]`

```
DELETE /-foo*
```

Will cause the `test1` and `test2` indices to be deleted, when what is
usually intended is to delete the `-foo1` and `-foo2` indices.

Previously we added a change in #20033 to disallow creating indices
starting with `-` or `+`, which will help with this situation. However,
users may have existing indices starting with these characters.

This changes the negation to only take effect in a wildcard (`*`) has
been seen somewhere in the expression, so in order to delete `-foo1` and
`-foo2` the following now works:

```
DELETE /-foo*
```

As well as:

```
DELETE /-foo1,-foo2
```

so in order to actually delete everything except for the "foo" indices
(ie, `test1` and `test2`) a user would now issue:

```
DELETE /*,--foo*
```

Relates to #19800
javanna pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 18, 2016
…20898)

* Only negate index expression on all indices with preceding wildcard

There is currently a very confusing behavior in Elasticsearch for the
following:

Given the indices: `[test1, test2, -foo1, -foo2]`

```
DELETE /-foo*
```

Will cause the `test1` and `test2` indices to be deleted, when what is
usually intended is to delete the `-foo1` and `-foo2` indices.

Previously we added a change in #20033 to disallow creating indices
starting with `-` or `+`, which will help with this situation. However,
users may have existing indices starting with these characters.

This changes the negation to only take effect in a wildcard (`*`) has
been seen somewhere in the expression, so in order to delete `-foo1` and
`-foo2` the following now works:

```
DELETE /-foo*
```

As well as:

```
DELETE /-foo1,-foo2
```

so in order to actually delete everything except for the "foo" indices
(ie, `test1` and `test2`) a user would now issue:

```
DELETE /*,--foo*
```

Relates to #19800
javanna pushed a commit to javanna/elasticsearch that referenced this pull request Oct 19, 2016
…lastic#20898)

* Only negate index expression on all indices with preceding wildcard

There is currently a very confusing behavior in Elasticsearch for the
following:

Given the indices: `[test1, test2, -foo1, -foo2]`

```
DELETE /-foo*
```

Will cause the `test1` and `test2` indices to be deleted, when what is
usually intended is to delete the `-foo1` and `-foo2` indices.

Previously we added a change in elastic#20033 to disallow creating indices
starting with `-` or `+`, which will help with this situation. However,
users may have existing indices starting with these characters.

This changes the negation to only take effect in a wildcard (`*`) has
been seen somewhere in the expression, so in order to delete `-foo1` and
`-foo2` the following now works:

```
DELETE /-foo*
```

As well as:

```
DELETE /-foo1,-foo2
```

so in order to actually delete everything except for the "foo" indices
(ie, `test1` and `test2`) a user would now issue:

```
DELETE /*,--foo*
```

Relates to elastic#19800
@dakrone dakrone deleted the forbid-simpleregex-in-index-name branch January 23, 2017 17:23
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