Accessing rules in subdirectories?

[jfcantu]

TL;DR: API doesn't seem to handle rule/template subdirectories, I can't tell from the documentation if this is intentional or not.

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I have the following directory structure under my rules/ folder:

|- detection.yaml
`- testfolder/
   `- testrule.yaml

Requesting /rules from the API returns what you'd expect:

{"directories":["testfolder"],"rules":["detection"]}

The thing is, the API doesn't seem to be aware of testrule.yaml, and doesn't allow me a way to interact with it or with testfolder - which seems odd, because:

• The API is at least aware of directories inside the rules folder, and I'm not sure why it would expose their existence if they're not intended to be interacted with. (The documentation even specifically says "Returns a list of directories and rules that exist in the rulesPath (from the config) and are being run by the ElastAlert process.")
• The ElastAlert documentation alludes to a scan_subdirectories option, which defaults to true, and configures ElastAlert to recursively look for rules in the rules directory.

Various attempts I've made:

Request	Result
/rules	{"directories":["testfolder"],"rules":["detection"]}
/rules/detection	[contents of detection.yaml]
/rules/testfolder	{"error":"ruleNotFound","message":"The requested rule with id: 'testfolder' couldn't be found.","statusCode":404}
/rules/testfolder/testrule	Cannot GET /rules/testfolder/testrule
/rules/testrule	{"error":"ruleNotFound","message":"The requested rule with id: 'testrule' couldn't be found.","statusCode":404}

I have pretty limited understanding of Node.js so I can't really tell from the source if there's a syntax I should be using instead.