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Scoped services

Whenever Kibana needs to get access to data saved in Elasticsearch, it should perform a check whether an end-user has access to the data. The Kibana Platform introduced a handler interface on the server-side to perform that association internally. Core services, that require impersonation with an incoming request, are exposed via context argument of the request handler interface.

async function handler(context, req, res) {
  const data = await context.core.elasticsearch.client.asCurrentUser('ping');
}

The request handler context exposes the following scoped core services:

Declare a custom scoped service

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Plugins can extend the handler context with a custom API that will be available to the plugin itself and all dependent plugins. For example, the plugin creates a custom Elasticsearch client and wants to use it via the request handler context:

import type { CoreSetup, RequestHandlerContext, IScopedClusterClient } from '@kbn/core/server';

interface MyRequestHandlerContext extends RequestHandlerContext {
 myPlugin: {
   client: IScopedClusterClient;
 };
}

class MyPlugin {
  setup(core: CoreSetup) {
    const client = core.elasticsearch.createClient('myClient');
    core.http.registerRouteHandlerContext<MyRequestHandlerContext, 'myPlugin'>('myPlugin', (context, req, res) => {
      return { client: client.asScoped(req) };
    });
    const router = core.http.createRouter<MyRequestHandlerContext>();
    router.get(
      { path: '/api/my-plugin/', validate: … },
      async (context, req, res) => {
        // context type is inferred as MyPluginContext
        const data = await context.myPlugin.client.asCurrentUser('endpoint');
      }
    );
  }

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