This commits exposes the RestClientBuilder as a bean even when the RestHighLevelClient is not available It allows users to create their own RestClient beans using the Spring Boot configured RestClientBuilder when they are not using the RestHighLevelClient.
In addition to that a new ElasticsearchRestClientHealthIndicator decoupled from the RestHighLevelClient has been added and is used as an elasticsearch health contributor when there are no RestHighLevelClient beans.
This is similar to PR #28496, with the difference being that this is a potential proposal for 2.6.0. With this people can freely remove the dependency on the RestHighLevelClient and have all the benefits from Spring Boot in 2.6.
Comment From: bclozel
@filiphr I've merged this PR, removing the bits about the health indicators.
While that part was totally valid, we're really late in the milestone phase and we repurposed this PR as a bug to only fix the RestClientBuilder auto-configuration part.
I know this won't solve everything on your side, but I hope it will make things a bit easier for the 2.6.x timeline.
Comment From: filiphr
Thanks a lot for bringing this into the 2.6.x timeline @bclozel. It helps us a lot to properly use the Spring Boot support here.
removing the bits about the health indicators.
I completely understand this. I was not entirely sure about it left it there to leave it up to you. Adding our own health contributor is super trivial.
Does the change about the health contributors make sense for the 2.7 release? If yes I will bring those changes to PR #28496