Create or update role API

The PutRoleRequest class is used to create or update a role in the Native Roles Store. The request contains a single role, which encapsulates privileges over resources. A role can be assigned to an user using the Create or update role mapping API.

final Role role = Role.builder()
    .name("testPutRole")
    .clusterPrivileges(randomSubsetOf(1, Role.ClusterPrivilegeName.ALL_ARRAY))
    .build();
final PutRoleRequest request = new PutRoleRequest(role, RefreshPolicy.NONE);

When executing a PutRoleRequest in the following manner, the client waits for the PutRoleResponse to be returned before continuing with code execution:

final PutRoleResponse response = client.security().putRole(request, RequestOptions.DEFAULT);

Synchronous calls may throw an IOException in case of either failing to parse the REST response in the high-level REST client, the request times out or similar cases where there is no response coming back from the server.

In cases where the server returns a 4xx or 5xx error code, the high-level client tries to parse the response body error details instead and then throws a generic ElasticsearchException and adds the original ResponseException as a suppressed exception to it.

Executing a PutRoleRequest can also be done in an asynchronous fashion so that the client can return directly. Users need to specify how the response or potential failures will be handled by passing the request and a listener to the asynchronous put-role method:

client.security().putRoleAsync(request, RequestOptions.DEFAULT, listener); 

The asynchronous method does not block and returns immediately. Once it is completed the ActionListener is called back using the onResponse method if the execution successfully completed or using the onFailure method if it failed. Failure scenarios and expected exceptions are the same as in the synchronous execution case.

A typical listener for put-role looks like:

ActionListener<PutRoleResponse> listener = new ActionListener<PutRoleResponse>() {
    @Override
    public void onResponse(PutRoleResponse response) {
        
    }

    @Override
    public void onFailure(Exception e) {
        
    }
};

The returned PutRoleResponse contains a single field, created. This field serves as an indication if the role was created or if an existing entry was updated.

boolean isCreated = response.isCreated();