Access to client from a script plugin

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Hello,
I am currently studying different tools for identity resolution in a big amount of data, and I found this one. The only problem is that the main developper stopped at ES 2.4.2, so I am trying to port it to ES 5.2...
In the old version, custom settings are stored in a given index using a reference to the client, provided during the plugin initialization. But this functionality is not in ES 5+ anymore, so I am looking for a way to get a reference to the client from the script plugin.
Is such a thing possible ?

Thank you

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It is probably possible but we don't encourage it. We didn't want scripts doing potentially blocking operations while they are running. Ideally, we'd like scripts to be totally idempotent.

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I see, thank you for your reply...
So the best practice would be to pass the settings as parameters with each query ?

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Depending on the kind of settings we're talking about, yes. Sometimes it makes sense to keep them in the cluster state. That is a thing that plugins can read.

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