Permit EQL feature flag in release builds (#52201)

Provides a path to set register the EQL feature flag in release builds. This enables EQL in release builds so that release docs tests pass. Release docs tests do not have infrastructure in place to only register snippets from included portions of the docs, they instead include all docs snippets. Since EQL can not be enabled in release builds, this meant that the EQL snippets fail in the release docs tests. This adds the ability to enable EQL in the release docs tests. This system property will be removed when EQL is ready for release.

Author: jrodewig

docs/build.gradle

@@ -47,11 +47,10 @@ testClusters.integTest {
  setting 'indices.lifecycle.history_index_enabled', 'false'
  if (BuildParams.isSnapshotBuild() == false) {
  systemProperty 'es.autoscaling_feature_flag_registered', 'true'
+ systemProperty 'es.eql_feature_flag_registered', 'true'
  }
  setting 'xpack.autoscaling.enabled', 'true'
- if (BuildParams.isSnapshotBuild()) {
- setting 'xpack.eql.enabled', 'true'
- }
+ setting 'xpack.eql.enabled', 'true'
  }
 
  // enable regexes in painless so our tests don't complain about example snippets that use them

x-pack/plugin/eql/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/eql/plugin/EqlPlugin.java

@@ -45,6 +45,24 @@
 
 public class EqlPlugin extends Plugin implements ActionPlugin {
 
+ private static final boolean EQL_FEATURE_FLAG_REGISTERED;
+
+ static {
+ final String property = System.getProperty("es.eql_feature_flag_registered");
+ if (Build.CURRENT.isSnapshot() && property != null) {
+ throw new IllegalArgumentException("es.eql_feature_flag_registered is only supported in non-snapshot builds");
+ }
+ if ("true".equals(property)) {
+ EQL_FEATURE_FLAG_REGISTERED = true;
+ } else if ("false".equals(property) || property == null) {
+ EQL_FEATURE_FLAG_REGISTERED = false;
+ } else {
+ throw new IllegalArgumentException(
+ "expected es.eql_feature_flag_registered to be unset or [true|false] but was [" + property + "]"
+ );
+ }
+ }
+
  public static final Setting<Boolean> EQL_ENABLED_SETTING = Setting.boolSetting(
  "xpack.eql.enabled",
  false,
@@ -83,7 +101,7 @@ private Collection<Object> createComponents(Client client, String clusterName, N
  */
  @Override
  public List<Setting<?>> getSettings() {
- if (isSnapshot()) {
+ if (isSnapshot() || EQL_FEATURE_FLAG_REGISTERED) {
  return List.of(EQL_ENABLED_SETTING);
  } else {
  return List.of();