Add support for wildcard field type

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 - [Remote Store] Upload translog checkpoint as object metadata to translog.tlog([#13637](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/13637))
 - Add getMetadataFields to MapperService ([#13819](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/13819))
 - [Remote State] Add async remote state deletion task running on an interval, configurable by a setting ([#13131](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/13131))
+- Add "wildcard" field type that supports efficient wildcard, prefix, and regexp queries ([#13461](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/13461))
 - Allow setting query parameters on requests ([#13776](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/issues/13776))
 - Add capability to disable source recovery_source for an index ([#13590](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/13590))
 - Add remote routing table for remote state publication with experimental feature flag ([#13304](https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pull/13304))

rest-api-spec/src/main/resources/rest-api-spec/test/search/270_wildcard_fieldtype_queries.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,229 @@
+setup:
+  - skip:
+      version: " - 2.99.99"
+      reason: "Added in 2.15, but need to skip pre-3.0 before backport"
+
+  - do:
+      indices.create:
+        index: test
+        body:
+          mappings:
+            properties:
+              my_field:
+                type: wildcard
+                fields:
+                  lower:
+                    type: wildcard
+                    normalizer: lowercase
+                  doc_values:
+                    type: wildcard
+                    doc_values: true
+
+  - do:
+      index:
+        index: test
+        id: 1
+        body:
+          my_field: "org.opensearch.transport.NodeDisconnectedException: [node_s0][127.0.0.1:39953][disconnected] disconnected"
+  - do:
+      index:
+        index: test
+        id: 2
+        body:
+          my_field: "[2024-06-08T06:31:37,443][INFO ][o.o.c.c.Coordinator      ] [node_s2] cluster-manager node [{node_s0}{Nj7FjR7hRP2lh_zur8KN_g}{OTGOoWmmSsWP_RQ3tIKJ9g}{127.0.0.1}{127.0.0.1:39953}{imr}{shard_indexing_pressure_enabled=true}] failed, restarting discovery"
+
+  - do:
+      index:
+        index: test
+        id: 3
+        body:
+          my_field: "[2024-06-08T06:31:37,451][INFO ][o.o.c.s.ClusterApplierService] [node_s2] cluster-manager node changed {previous [{node_s0}{Nj7FjR7hRP2lh_zur8KN_g}{OTGOoWmmSsWP_RQ3tIKJ9g}{127.0.0.1}{127.0.0.1:39953}{imr}{shard_indexing_pressure_enabled=true}], current []}, term: 1, version: 24, reason: becoming candidate: onLeaderFailure"
+  - do:
+      index:
+        index: test
+        id: 4
+        body:
+          my_field: "[2024-06-08T06:31:37,452][WARN ][o.o.c.NodeConnectionsService] [node_s1] failed to connect to {node_s0}{Nj7FjR7hRP2lh_zur8KN_g}{OTGOoWmmSsWP_RQ3tIKJ9g}{127.0.0.1}{127.0.0.1:39953}{imr}{shard_indexing_pressure_enabled=true} (tried [1] times)"
+  - do:
+      index:
+        index: test
+        id: 5
+        body:
+          my_field: "AbCd"
+  - do:
+      index:
+        index: test
+        id: 6
+        body:
+          other_field: "test"
+  - do:
+      indices.refresh: {}
+
+---
+"term query matches exact value":
+  - do:
+      search:
+        index: test
+        body:
+          query:
+            term:
+              my_field: "AbCd"
+  - match: { hits.total.value: 1 }
+  - match: { hits.hits.0._id: "5" }
+
+  - do:
+      search:
+        index: test
+        body:
+          query:
+            term:
+              my_field.doc_values: "AbCd"
+  - match: { hits.total.value: 1 }
+  - match: { hits.hits.0._id: "5" }
+
+---
+"term query matches lowercase-normalized value":
+  - do:
+      search:
+        index: test
+        body:
+          query:
+            term:
+              my_field.lower: "abcd"
+  - match: { hits.total.value: 1 }
+  - match: { hits.hits.0._id: "5" }
+
+  - do:
+      search:
+        index: test
+        body:
+          query:
+            term:
+              my_field.lower: "ABCD"
+  - match: { hits.total.value: 1 }
+  - match: { hits.hits.0._id: "5" }
+
+  - do:
+      search:
+        index: test
+        body:
+          query:
+            term:
+              my_field: "abcd"
+  - match: { hits.total.value: 0 }
+
+---
+"wildcard query matches":
+  - do:
+      search:
+        index: test
+        body:
+          query:
+            wildcard:
+              my_field:
+                value: "*Node*Exception*"
+  - match: { hits.total.value: 1 }
+  - match: { hits.hits.0._id: "1" }
+
+---
+"wildcard query matches lowercase-normalized field":
+  - do:
+      search:
+        index: test
+        body:
+          query:
+            wildcard:
+              my_field.lower:
+                value: "*node*exception*"
+  - match: { hits.total.value: 1 }
+  - match: { hits.hits.0._id: "1" }
+
+  - do:
+      search:
+        index: test
+        body:
+          query:
+            wildcard:
+              my_field.lower:
+                value: "*NODE*EXCEPTION*"
+  - match: { hits.total.value: 1 }
+  - match: { hits.hits.0._id: "1" }
+
+  - do:
+      search:
+        index: test
+        body:
+          query:
+            wildcard:
+              my_field:
+                value: "*node*exception*"
+  - match: { hits.total.value: 0 }
+
+---
+"prefix query matches":
+  - do:
+      search:
+        index: test
+        body:
+          query:
+            prefix:
+              my_field:
+                value: "[2024-06-08T"
+  - match: { hits.total.value: 3 }
+
+---
+"regexp query matches":
+  - do:
+      search:
+        index: test
+        body:
+          query:
+            regexp:
+              my_field:
+                value: ".*06-08.*cluster-manager node.*"
+  - match: { hits.total.value: 2 }
+
+---
+"regexp query matches lowercase-normalized field":
+  - do:
+      search:
+        index: test
+        body:
+          query:
+            regexp:
+              my_field.lower:
+                value: ".*06-08.*Cluster-Manager Node.*"
+  - match: { hits.total.value: 2 }
+
+  - do:
+      search:
+        index: test
+        body:
+          query:
+            regexp:
+              my_field:
+                value: ".*06-08.*Cluster-Manager Node.*"
+  - match: { hits.total.value: 0 }
+
+---
+"wildcard match-all works":
+  - do:
+      search:
+        index: test
+        body:
+          query:
+            wildcard:
+              my_field:
+                value: "*"
+  - match: { hits.total.value: 5 }
+---
+"regexp match-all works":
+  - do:
+      search:
+        index: test
+        body:
+          query:
+            regexp:
+              my_field:
+                value: ".*"
+  - match: { hits.total.value: 5 }

server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/mapper/KeywordFieldMapper.java

@@ -703,7 +703,7 @@ protected void parseCreateField(ParseContext context) throws IOException {
         }
     }
 
-    private static String normalizeValue(NamedAnalyzer normalizer, String field, String value) throws IOException {
+    static String normalizeValue(NamedAnalyzer normalizer, String field, String value) throws IOException {
         try (TokenStream ts = normalizer.tokenStream(field, value)) {
             final CharTermAttribute termAtt = ts.addAttribute(CharTermAttribute.class);
             ts.reset();