Provide a way to convert QueryDescriptor to Query (Elastic.Clients.Elasticsearch, 8.11.0) about elasticsearch-net HOT 2 OPEN

Migrating from NEST to the new driver/client I have the same issues all over the place. In NEST query descriptors also implemented the corresponding query interface (e.g. BoolQueryDescriptor<T> : IBoolQuery).

In general, migrating from NEST is truly painful. There's no migration guide, no documentation/API reference for the .Net client, and close-to-no documentation on mouse-over in the IDE. You have to start guessing the new class names and go from there (usually decompiling the code and looking deeply into the various classes).

from elasticsearch-net.

Hi @petr-horny-bsshop,

1. A conversion or inheritance structure like in NEST (where the descriptors are derived from the request/data classes or implement the same interface) won't get implemented in version 8.x of the client. I will re-evaluate the current design for the 9.x release.
2. Currently, unions are missing support for descriptors. This is the root cause that prevents an overload from being generated at this place (and many others). Implementing descriptor support for unions is on my todo list 🙂

@CasperWSchmidt

This fundamental design decision was taken before I inherited this project and for now I won't change this back. As stated above, I'll re-evaluate this design together with the former maintainers and try to improve usability for version 9.x.

There's no migration guide

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/net-api/current/migration-guide.html

no documentation/API reference for the .Net client

This is on my very short term todo list. You can expect an auto-generated API reference to be available soon.

close-to-no documentation on mouse-over in the IDE

This should have changed with the new code generator and version 8.13.x.

from elasticsearch-net.