Basic Authentication using RestFilter

[arimoham (Mohamed Arif Hanifa)]

Thanks for your reply @s1monw.

My main concern is - RestController api doesn't support 'registerFilter' method anymore as shown below

@Inject
public AuthenticationHandler(Settings settings, RestController controller) {
super(settings);
controller.registerFilter(new AuthenticationFilter());
}

And also, RestFilter class is also removed from elasticsearch API, so I cant extend this class and create a custom filter class as shown below,

public class AuthenticationFilter extends RestFilter {
}

I'm trying to follow the example given in below post,

Using RestHandlers for custom Authentication Plugin

Thanks for the reply. I was able to create a basic plugin for the same in the following way.. My plugin class: public class ESPlugin extends Plugin implements ActionPlugin { public List<RestHandler> getRestHandlers(Settings settings, RestController restController, ClusterSettings clusterSettings, IndexScopedSettings indexScopedSettings, SettingsFilter settingsFilter, IndexNameExpressionResolver indexNameExpressionResolver, Supplier<DiscoveryNodes> nodesInCluster) { return Arrays.asList(n…

but because of above mentioned two clarifications, not sure how to proceed, please.

Could you please explain with an example or sudo code - I'm new to elasticsearch.

Many thanks in advance.