Support validating multiple APIs at once

This means make validate api=search,index is possible, but more importantly
that validation in CI will be much faster.

Author: pquentin

.github/validate-pr/index.js

@@ -86,6 +86,9 @@ async function run() {
 
   cd(tsValidationPath)
 
+  // Collect all APIs to validate
+  const apisToValidate = new Set()
+
   for (const file of specFiles) {
     if (file.startsWith('specification/_types')) continue
     if (file.startsWith('specification/_spec_utils')) continue
@@ -102,32 +105,35 @@ async function run() {
         .filter(endpoint => endpoint.name.split('.').filter(s => !privateNames.includes(s))[0] === getApi(file).split('.')[0])
         .map(endpoint => endpoint.name)
       for (const api of apis) {
-        const report = await getReport({
-          api,
-          'generate-report': false,
-          request: true,
-          response: true,
-          ci: false,
-          verbose: false
-        })
-        const namespace = getNamespace(api)
-        // Asked to validate a specific API, so we only store that one
-        reports.set(api, report.get(namespace)[0])
+        apisToValidate.add(api)
       }
     } else {
       const api = getApi(file)
-      const report = await getReport({
-        api,
-        'generate-report': false,
-        request: true,
-        response: true,
-        ci: false,
-        verbose: false
-      })
+      apisToValidate.add(api)
+    }
+  }
 
+  // Call getReport once with all APIs
+  if (apisToValidate.size > 0) {
+    const allApis = Array.from(apisToValidate).join(',')
+    const report = await getReport({
+      api: allApis,
+      'generate-report': false,
+      request: true,
+      response: true,
+      ci: false,
+      verbose: false
+    })
+
+    // Extract individual API reports from the combined result
+    for (const api of apisToValidate) {
       const namespace = getNamespace(api)
-      // Asked to validate a specific API, so we only store that one
-      reports.set(api, report.get(namespace)[0])
+      if (report.has(namespace)) {
+        const namespaceReport = report.get(namespace).find(r => r.api === getName(api))
+        if (namespaceReport) {
+          reports.set(api, namespaceReport)
+        }
+      }
     }
   }
 

README.md

@@ -234,6 +234,9 @@ make validate api=xpack.info type=request branch=main
 
 # this will validate the xpack.info request and response types against the 8.15 branch
 make validate api=xpack.info branch=8.15
+
+# this will validate the xpack.info and search request and response types against the 8.15 branch
+make validate api=xpack.info,search branch=8.15
 ```
 
 The last command above will install all the dependencies and run, download

compiler/run-validations.js

@@ -78,8 +78,11 @@ async function run () {
     process.exit(1)
   }
 
-  if (!apis.includes(options.api)) {
-    spinner.fail(`The api '${options.api}' does not exists, did you mean '${closest(options.api, apis)}'?`)
+  const apiList = options.api.split(',').map(api => api.trim())
+  const invalidApis = apiList.filter(api => !apis.includes(api))
+  if (invalidApis.length > 0) {
+    const suggestions = invalidApis.map(api => `'${api}' (did you mean '${closest(api, apis)}'?)`).join(', ')
+    spinner.fail(`The following APIs do not exist: ${suggestions}`)
     process.exit(1)
   }
   // if the empty string it's because the make target wasn't configured with a type argument

docs/validation-example.md

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ The example assumes that you have already performed the necessary steps to run a
 if not, take a look at the [README](../README.md).
 
 ```sh
-make validate api=index type=request branch=main
+make validate api=index branch=main
 ```
 
 You will see an output like the following:
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ open it with your favourite editor and perform the fix
 Finally run the validation again:
 
 ```sh
-make validate api=index type=request branch=main
+make validate api=index branch=main
 ```
 
 If there are no more errors, open a pull request with the fix.