Shorten_url api does not return urlId

[tshayan (Shayan Talaiyan)]

Hello,

I have followed the shorten_url api documentation to create a new shortened URL, however in response I am only getting a confirmation and not the urlID as per the documentation.

I am doing this via Kibana's dev-tools:

Request:

POST /api/shorten_url
{
  "url": "/app/dashboards#/view/1d73b1f0-fe7d-11ea-9dd2-93882e373ff0?_a=(description...."
}

Response:

#! Deprecation: [types removal] Specifying types in document index requests is deprecated, use the typeless endpoints instead (/{index}/_doc/{id}, /{index}/_doc, or /{index}/_create/{id}).
{
  "_index" : "api",
  "_type" : "shorten_url",
  "_id" : "3JqrZXUByUcARzs8PpFk",
  "_version" : 1,
  "result" : "created",
  "_shards" : {
    "total" : 2,
    "successful" : 1,
    "failed" : 0
  },
  "_seq_no" : 7,
  "_primary_term" : 1
}

Also no new URL object gets created under saved objects. Could anyone help?

Using ELK 7.9.2

[tshayan (Shayan Talaiyan)]

Update:
If I do this using curl from command line it works and returns the urlId.... But still curious why is isn't the same response from dev-tools.

I am assuming this is because dev-tools sends the command towards elasticsearch while with curl we send the command towards kibana (curl localhost:5601/api/shared_url) which basically tells me thath this is a kibana API and not an ES API. Is that correct?

[flash1293 (Joe Reuter)]

Hey, you nailed it! Dev tools can only be used for Elasticsearch APIs, to test Kibana APIs you need to use an external tool like curl.

/api/shorten_url is a Kibana API (check the first breadcrumb of the navigation in the docs, if it says 'Kibana Guide', it's a Kibana API).

The confusing part here is POST /api/shorten_url is also a valid Elasticsearch query - it adds a document of type "shorten_url" to the "api" index.