Elasticsearch Java Client: Support for custom mappings/settings

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Custom plugins sometimes require custom mappings/settings.
As an example, elastiknn requires a specific setting to enable the plugin for a given index and a custom field mapping for the configuration.

With the Rest High-Level Client, this can be done using XContentFactory. The new Elasticsearch Java Client is much more elegant and type-safe but it does not seem to support custom settings/mappings.

Is there any plan to support this?

Thanks

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Yes, definitely. We've done some prototyping on this already which is captured in [roadmap] Add support for plugin-defined custom components · Issue #252 · elastic/elasticsearch-java · GitHub

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