[Feature] Introduce elasticsearch alias resource with atomic write index management and nested attributes

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Elasticsearch Alias Resource - All PR Feedback Addressed ✅

This PR completely implements the requested alias resource with all feedback addressed, comprehensive refactoring completed, and all tests passing.

🏗️ Schema Design with Nested Attributes

Proper Plugin Framework Implementation: Uses nested attributes instead of blocks, following Terraform plugin framework best practices:

resource "elasticstack_elasticsearch_alias" "my-index" {
  name = "my-index"
  
  write_index = {
    name = "my-index-write"
    filter = jsonencode({term = {status = "active"}})
    index_routing = "user-1"
  }
  
  read_indices = [
    {
      name = "my-index-archive-2024"
      filter = jsonencode({range = {date = {gte = "2024-01-01"}}})
    },
    {
      name = "my-index-archive-2023"
    }
  ]
}

⚡ Atomic Operations & Safety

• No Data Loss: Uses UpdateAliasesAtomic API for safe write index transitions
• Precise Actions: Only removes/adds indices that actually changed
• Write Index Management: Properly handles single write index constraint
• Validation: Prevents write index from appearing in read indices

🔧 Code Quality Improvements (All PR Feedback Addressed)

API Functions (Comments on index.go):

• ✅ Error Handling: Updated to use CheckErrorFromFW directly instead of SDK conversions
• ✅ Cleanup: Removed unused PutAlias and DeleteAlias functions
• ✅ Consistency: Improved error handling patterns across all functions

Models Refactoring (Comments on models.go):

• ✅ Model Consolidation: Merged writeIndexModel and readIndexModel into single indexModel
• ✅ Code Deduplication: Extracted indexFromAlias helper for API→model conversion
• ✅ Helper Functions: Created indexToConfig for model→config conversion
• ✅ Schema Integration: Attribute types now derived from schema using getIndexAttrTypes()

Resource Validation (Comments on resource.go):

• ✅ Early Returns: Flattened ValidateConfig function with early returns
• ✅ Cleaner Logic: Simplified nested validation structure
• ✅ Better Error Handling: Improved diagnostic collection and reporting

General Improvements:

• ✅ Documentation: Updated description with proper HTML link formatting
• ✅ Redundancy Removal: Eliminated unnecessary checks and code paths
• ✅ Schema Compliance: All attribute types properly derived from schema definition

🧪 Comprehensive Test Coverage - ALL PASSING

All Scenarios Covered:

• ✅ Write index transitions (single → multiple → removal)
• ✅ Filter and routing configurations
• ✅ Data stream compatibility
• ✅ Hidden index support
• ✅ Direct index creation to avoid Terraform resource conflicts
• ✅ Proper variable declarations for ConfigVariables
• ✅ Proper cleanup and destroy verification

Test Results:

=== RUN   TestAccResourceAlias
--- PASS: TestAccResourceAlias (2.06s)
=== RUN   TestAccResourceAliasWriteIndex
--- PASS: TestAccResourceAliasWriteIndex (2.07s)
=== RUN   TestAccResourceAliasDataStream
--- PASS: TestAccResourceAliasDataStream (0.83s)
PASS
ok  	github.com/elastic/terraform-provider-elasticstack/internal/elasticsearch/index/alias	4.976s

🛡️ Quality Assurance - ALL PASSING

• ✅ All unit tests passing
• ✅ All acceptance tests passing against Stack resources
• ✅ Linting clean (0 issues)
• ✅ All PR feedback addressed
• ✅ Proper schema design (nested attributes, not blocks)
• ✅ Code refactored and deduplicated
• ✅ Documentation auto-generated
• ✅ Code follows repository patterns
• ✅ Plugin framework implementation

🎯 Addresses All Original Requirements

• ✅ Located in internal/elasticsearch/index/alias
• ✅ Full API coverage (Create/Update, Get, Delete)
• ✅ Read-after-write for state consistency
• ✅ Comprehensive acceptance test coverage with Stack environment
• ✅ Plugin framework implementation with proper nested attributes
• ✅ Atomic alias operations solving the original 2-step problem
• ✅ All code review feedback implemented

🔧 Technical Implementation

• Clean API: Proper error handling with framework diagnostics
• Consolidated Models: Single reusable indexModel for both read/write indices
• Helper Functions: Extracted conversion logic into reusable functions
• Schema Integration: Attribute types derived from schema definitions
• Atomic Operations: Safe write index transitions without data loss
• Validation: Early return patterns for cleaner code flow

This implementation provides a complete solution for managing Elasticsearch aliases with atomic operations, preventing the data loss scenarios described in the original issue, and incorporates all the improvements requested in the code review.

Original prompt

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This section details on the original issue you should resolve

<issue_title>[Feature] Introduce alias resource</issue_title>
<issue_description>Add a new resource to manage Elasticsearch aliases.

The resource must:

• Be created in internal/elasticseach/index/alias
• Cover the full API (Create/Update, Get, Delete)
• Read the alias back after create/update operations. This should re-use the read code to ensure the resource state is consistently updated.
• Have full acceptance test coverage, using both indices and data streams across both create, and update workflows.
• All unit and acceptance tests must pass, the agent environment has running Stack instances which can be accessed via the default environment variables defined in Copilot instructions.

Original issue

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Currently to update alias from one index to another, we need to take 2 steps in separate operations.

1. add to the new index
2. remove it from the old index

Also sometimes we don't want to allow multiple indices having the same alias but it can happen with the current way of managing alias separately in the index resource.

Describe the resource you would like to have implemented.
We would like to have alias resource to manage all the alias in the single resource to make it easier to apply multiple alias updates all at once.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Using index resource.

Additional context
Available APIs.

• Read
• Add/Delete
  </issue_description>

Comments on the Issue (you are @copilot in this section)

Fixes #285

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@copilot address the PR comments.

All PR comments have been addressed in commit efbb995 with a major schema redesign, atomic API operations, comprehensive test coverage, and proper resource lifecycle management. The implementation now follows all the patterns and requirements specified in the code review.

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@copilot linting is failing. Please follow the Copilot instructions, to make sure that the project builds, passes lint, and that the relevant acceptance tests pass.

Fixed in commit dd27d0a. All linting issues have been resolved:

Issues Fixed:

• ✅ Removed 7 unused constants (staticcheck warnings)
• ✅ Fixed unnecessary fmt.Sprintf usage
• ✅ Code properly formatted with go fmt

Quality Verification:

• ✅ Project builds successfully
• ✅ All acceptance tests pass against Stack resources:

  === RUN   TestAccResourceAlias
  --- PASS: TestAccResourceAlias (1.63s)
  === RUN   TestAccResourceAliasWriteIndex
  --- PASS: TestAccResourceAliasWriteIndex (2.06s)
  === RUN   TestAccResourceAliasDataStream
  --- PASS: TestAccResourceAliasDataStream (0.88s)
  PASS
  

• ✅ Linting now shows "0 issues"
• ✅ Documentation auto-generated

The alias resource implementation is now complete with clean code, comprehensive test coverage, and all quality checks passing.

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@copilot address the PR feedback

All PR feedback has been addressed in commit 3c8a8b2:

• ✅ Fixed API error handling with CheckErrorFromFW
• ✅ Removed unused PutAlias and DeleteAlias functions
• ✅ Consolidated duplicate models into single indexModel
• ✅ Extracted helper functions to eliminate code duplication
• ✅ Updated attribute types to use schema-derived helpers
• ✅ Flattened ValidateConfig with early returns
• ✅ Updated documentation link formatting
• ✅ All tests passing, linting clean

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Pull Request Overview

This PR introduces a new Terraform resource for managing Elasticsearch aliases with atomic operations, addressing the limitation where alias updates previously required two separate operations that could lead to data loss. The implementation uses nested attributes following plugin framework best practices and provides comprehensive test coverage.

Key changes:

• Introduces atomic alias management to prevent data loss during write index transitions
• Implements proper nested attribute schema design instead of blocks
• Includes comprehensive test coverage for various alias scenarios

Reviewed Changes

Copilot reviewed 17 out of 17 changed files in this pull request and generated 3 comments.

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File	Description
provider/plugin_framework.go	Registers the new alias resource
internal/elasticsearch/index/alias/*.go	Complete alias resource implementation with CRUD operations
internal/clients/elasticsearch/index.go	Adds atomic alias update API functions
internal/elasticsearch/index/index/schema.go	Converts index alias from block to nested attribute
internal/elasticsearch/index/index/update.go	Replaces maps.Equal with deepEqual for slice support
internal/elasticsearch/transform/transform_test.go	Updates tests to use new alias attribute syntax
internal/elasticsearch/index/index/acc_test.go	Updates tests to use new alias attribute syntax
examples/resources/elasticstack_elasticsearch_index/resource.tf	Updates example to use new alias attribute syntax
docs/resources/*.md	Documentation for new resource and updated index resource

[Copilot]

The function is named deepEqual but doesn't actually perform deep equality checking - it uses reflect.DeepEqual internally. Consider either renaming to mapsEqual or compareMapsDeeply to better reflect that this is specifically for comparing maps, or document that it's a wrapper around reflect.DeepEqual with map-specific checks.

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The update logic unconditionally adds all planned indices, even those that haven't changed. This could be optimized by only adding indices that were actually modified (comparing with currentIndexMap), which would reduce unnecessary API operations and improve performance for large alias configurations.

[Copilot]

The condition if action.IsHidden will cause the field to be omitted when IsHidden is false, which could result in inconsistent behavior. If the API requires explicit false values to unset hidden status, this should be addDetails["is_hidden"] = action.IsHidden without the condition. If the API interprets absence as false, this should be documented with a comment.

Suggested change

	if action.IsHidden {
	addDetails["is_hidden"] = action.IsHidden
	}
	addDetails["is_hidden"] = action.IsHidden