Andrew Ross

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@gargharsh3134 Regarding the question of returning JSON, the "cat" in "_cat" literally means "compact aligned text". If the proposed API is going to return JSON then it really sounds like...

Thanks @gargharsh3134! I didn't realize the _cat APIs could already return formats other than compact aligned text. Ignore my comment.

> Adding Rest API versioning with v2 at the server side needs a more wider discussion @gargharsh3134 @shwetathareja Agreed. There was some initial discussion in #3035 for this.

@reta It was easier to illustrate the change here as a PR as opposed to describing it in an issue. The key changes here are basically: - Remove protocol-specific types...

@akolarkunnu Looks good. Unfortunately there's a merge conflict now. Can you rebase?

Thanks for sticking with us @akolarkunnu! The DCO check is failing, I think related to the fact that you've got 354 commits in this PR. I'd suggest squashing/rebasing everything to...

"exclusive include" sounds like an oxymoron...

@mch2 How does allocation work here? Is the `search` node role being used? I'm assuming the most common use case here will be to allocate the search replicas to a...