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Document removal of custom REST wrappers in 8.0
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In elastic#71061 we removed support for custom REST Handler Wrappers.

This change adds that information to the migration guide under the
"Plugin changes" section
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tvernum committed Feb 7, 2022
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Expand Up @@ -45,4 +45,26 @@ If you run {es} using Docker and you are managing plugins using a
they already installed. If any of these plugins are specified in your
configuration file, {es} will ignore them and emit a warning log message.
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.Third party plugins can no longer intercept REST requests (RestHandlerWrapper)
[%collapsible]
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*Details* +
In previous versions of {es}, plugins were able to implement the
`getRestHandlerWrapper` method which would allow the plugin to intercept all
REST requests to the node. One of the common uses of this feature was to
implement custom security plugins that replaced the built-in
{security-features}. This extension point is no longer available to
third-party plugins.
*Impact* +
Some third party plugins that existed for earlier versions of {es} may not be
compatible with {es} version 8.0 or higher.
If you depend on any third-party plugins (that is, plugins that are not
produced and supported by Elastic) then you should check with the plugin author
and ensure that the plugin is available for your target version of {es} before
you upgrade.
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//end::notable-breaking-changes[]

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