Adding the merge_type param to the ingest simulate API

specification/_json_spec/simulate.ingest.json

@@ -32,6 +32,10 @@
       "pipeline": {
         "type": "string",
         "description": "The pipeline id to preprocess incoming documents with if no pipeline is given for a particular document"
+      },
+      "merge_type": {
+        "type": "string",
+        "description": "The way that mapping_additions ought to be merged into existing mappings"
       }
     },
     "body": {

specification/simulate/ingest/SimulateIngestRequest.ts

@@ -75,6 +75,13 @@ export interface Request extends RequestBase {
      * This value can be used to override the default pipeline of the index.
      */
     pipeline?: PipelineName
+    /**
+     * The way that mapping_additions ought to be merged into existing mappings -- in the way mapping changes are merged into an existing index, or in
+     * the way mapping changes are merged into existing templates. Some changes are allowed to templates that are not allowed to indices. For example,
+     * a field cannot be changed to an incompatible type in an index, but can in a template.
+     * @server_default index
+     */
+    merge_type?: MergeType
   }
   body: {
     /**
@@ -98,3 +105,8 @@ export interface Request extends RequestBase {
     pipeline_substitutions?: Dictionary<string, Pipeline>
   }
 }
+
+enum MergeType {
+  index,
+  template
+}