[Meta] URL Service

[stacey-gammon]

General

• Place the new URL Service in src/plugins/share plugin.

Tasks

Architecture review

• RFC
• Architecture review (see presentation)
• Project folder

URL generators 👉 Locators

• Implement locators Url service locators #101045
• Migrate URL generators to locators
• Locator documentation Locator docs #103129
• Add "redirect" endpoint which uses locators Redirect endpoint #103286
• Remove URL Generators service
• Compression for redirect endpoint params.

Short URL service

• Implement new short URL service on the server
• Human readable short URLs
• Implement short URL service on the client
• Add migration support
• Short URL documentation

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Part of #92603

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/kibana-app-services (Team:AppServices)

[tsullivan]

Related: Reporting

When there is a request to generate a report, the application captures the current page URL.

Those URLs in Reporting job parameters also have no migration system, and also don't carry any application state except for what is in the query string.

I could see the Reporting integration changing so that when there a request to generate a report, the URL comes from a specialized service.

[streamich]

• saved object?
  • probably should keep as saved objects
• migrations?
  • leaning towards supporting migrations in URL service
  • should be linked to report/alert, show be deleted once report/alert is deleted
• UI?
  • no
• expiry time?
  • track when link was last visited
• Plugin contract on browser and server?
  • yes

[elastic-jb]

If we are going to address the ability to remove short URLs, what pieces are still missing to allow a Share-To that can be revoked?

[Dosant]

I wonder if on top of a new URL service / URL locators we could progress on documenting Kibana URLs #4338?

Maybe we could auto-generate a doc page from all the locators' interfaces?
This was probably brought up before but didn't see this mentioned.