[Canvas] Migrate expression runner from bfetch to an HTTP route (#191031)

## Summary

Resolves https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/190267.

Moves the Canvas expression runner off of `bfetch` and onto the core
`http` router.

### Checklist

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### Risk Matrix

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release.

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and how they may potentially impact the change:

| Risk | Probability | Severity | Mitigation/Notes |

|---------------------------|-------------|----------|-------------------------|
| Multiple Spaces—unexpected behavior in non-default Kibana Space.
| Low | High | Integration tests will verify that all features are still
supported in non-default Kibana Space and when user switches between
spaces. |
| Multiple nodes—Elasticsearch polling might have race conditions
when multiple Kibana nodes are polling for the same tasks. | High | Low
| Tasks are idempotent, so executing them multiple times will not result
in logical error, but will degrade performance. To test for this case we
add plenty of unit tests around this logic and document manual testing
procedure. |
| Code should gracefully handle cases when feature X or plugin Y are
disabled. | Medium | High | Unit tests will verify that any feature flag
or plugin combination still results in our service operational. |
| [See more potential risk
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### For maintainers

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x-pack/plugins/canvas/kibana.jsonc

@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
       "canvas"
     ],
     "requiredPlugins": [
-      "bfetch",
       "charts",
       "data",
       "dataViews",

x-pack/plugins/canvas/public/plugin.tsx

@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ import { UiActionsSetup, UiActionsStart } from '@kbn/ui-actions-plugin/public';
 import { EmbeddableStart } from '@kbn/embeddable-plugin/public';
 import { UsageCollectionSetup } from '@kbn/usage-collection-plugin/public';
 import { Start as InspectorStart } from '@kbn/inspector-plugin/public';
-import { BfetchPublicSetup } from '@kbn/bfetch-plugin/public';
 import { PresentationUtilPluginStart } from '@kbn/presentation-util-plugin/public';
 import { DataViewsPublicPluginStart } from '@kbn/data-views-plugin/public';
 import { ContentManagementPublicStart } from '@kbn/content-management-plugin/public';
@@ -53,7 +52,6 @@ export interface CanvasSetupDeps {
   expressions: ExpressionsSetup;
   home?: HomePublicPluginSetup;
   usageCollection?: UsageCollectionSetup;
-  bfetch: BfetchPublicSetup;
   charts: ChartsPluginSetup;
   uiActions: UiActionsSetup;
 }

x-pack/plugins/canvas/public/setup_expressions.ts

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ export const setupExpressions = async ({
   coreSetup: CoreSetup;
   setupPlugins: CanvasSetupDeps;
 }) => {
-  const { expressions, bfetch } = setupPlugins;
+  const { expressions } = setupPlugins;
 
   const loadServerFunctionWrappers = async () => {
     if (!cached) {
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ export const setupExpressions = async ({
         const serverFunctionList = await coreSetup.http.get<any>(API_ROUTE_FUNCTIONS, {
           version: '1',
         });
-        const batchedFunction = bfetch.batchedFunction({ url: API_ROUTE_FUNCTIONS });
         const { serialize } = serializeProvider(expressions.getTypes());
 
         // For every sever-side function, register a client-side
@@ -43,7 +42,10 @@ export const setupExpressions = async ({
           const fn = () => ({
             ...serverFunctionList[functionName],
             fn: (input: any, args: any) => {
-              return batchedFunction({ functionName, args, context: serialize(input) });
+              return coreSetup.http.post(API_ROUTE_FUNCTIONS, {
+                body: JSON.stringify({ functionName, args, context: serialize(input) }),
+                version: '1',
+              });
             },
           });
 

x-pack/plugins/canvas/server/plugin.ts

@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ import {
   PluginStart as DataPluginStart,
 } from '@kbn/data-plugin/server';
 import { ExpressionsServerSetup } from '@kbn/expressions-plugin/server';
-import { BfetchServerSetup } from '@kbn/bfetch-plugin/server';
 import { UsageCollectionSetup } from '@kbn/usage-collection-plugin/server';
 import { HomeServerPluginSetup } from '@kbn/home-plugin/server';
 import { EmbeddableSetup } from '@kbn/embeddable-plugin/server';
@@ -33,7 +32,6 @@ interface PluginsSetup {
   embeddable: EmbeddableSetup;
   features: FeaturesPluginSetup;
   home: HomeServerPluginSetup;
-  bfetch: BfetchServerSetup;
   data: DataPluginSetup;
   reporting?: ReportingServerPluginSetup;
   usageCollection?: UsageCollectionSetup;
@@ -81,7 +79,6 @@ export class CanvasPlugin implements Plugin {
     initRoutes({
       router: canvasRouter,
       expressions: expressionsSetup,
-      bfetch: plugins.bfetch,
       logger: this.logger,
     });
 

x-pack/plugins/canvas/server/routes/functions/functions.ts

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
  */
 
 import { serializeProvider } from '@kbn/expressions-plugin/common';
+import { schema } from '@kbn/config-schema';
 import { RouteInitializerDeps } from '..';
 import { API_ROUTE_FUNCTIONS } from '../../../common/lib/constants';
 
@@ -32,7 +33,43 @@ export function initializeGetFunctionsRoute(deps: RouteInitializerDeps) {
 }
 
 export function initializeBatchFunctionsRoute(deps: RouteInitializerDeps) {
-  const { bfetch, expressions } = deps;
+  const { router, expressions } = deps;
+  router.versioned
+    .post({
+      path: API_ROUTE_FUNCTIONS,
+      access: 'internal',
+    })
+    .addVersion(
+      {
+        version: '1',
+        validate: {
+          request: {
+            body: schema.object({
+              functionName: schema.string(),
+              args: schema.object({}, { unknowns: 'allow' }),
+              context: schema.object({}, { unknowns: 'allow' }),
+            }),
+          },
+        },
+      },
+      async (context, request, response) => {
+        const handlers = {
+          environment: 'server',
+        };
+        const fnCall: FunctionCall = {
+          functionName: request.body.functionName,
+          args: request.body.args,
+          context: request.body.context,
+        };
+        const result = await runFunction(handlers, fnCall);
+        if (typeof result === 'undefined') {
+          throw new Error(`Function ${fnCall.functionName} did not return anything.`);
+        }
+        return response.ok({
+          body: result,
+        });
+      }
+    );
 
   async function runFunction(handlers: { environment: string }, fnCall: FunctionCall) {
     const { functionName, args, context } = fnCall;
@@ -46,23 +83,4 @@ export function initializeBatchFunctionsRoute(deps: RouteInitializerDeps) {
 
     return result;
   }
-
-  /**
-   * Register an endpoint that executes a batch of functions, and streams the
-   * results back using ND-JSON.
-   */
-  bfetch.addBatchProcessingRoute(API_ROUTE_FUNCTIONS, (request) => {
-    return {
-      onBatchItem: async (fnCall: FunctionCall) => {
-        const handlers = {
-          environment: 'server',
-        };
-        const result = await runFunction(handlers, fnCall);
-        if (typeof result === 'undefined') {
-          throw new Error(`Function ${fnCall.functionName} did not return anything.`);
-        }
-        return result;
-      },
-    };
-  });
 }

x-pack/plugins/canvas/server/routes/index.ts

@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 
 import { IRouter, Logger } from '@kbn/core/server';
 import { ExpressionsServerSetup } from '@kbn/expressions-plugin/server';
-import { BfetchServerSetup } from '@kbn/bfetch-plugin/server';
 import { initCustomElementsRoutes } from './custom_elements';
 import { initShareablesRoutes } from './shareables';
 import { initWorkpadRoutes } from './workpad';
@@ -19,7 +18,6 @@ export interface RouteInitializerDeps {
   router: IRouter<CanvasRouteHandlerContext>;
   logger: Logger;
   expressions: ExpressionsServerSetup;
-  bfetch: BfetchServerSetup;
 }
 
 export function initRoutes(deps: RouteInitializerDeps) {

x-pack/plugins/canvas/server/routes/test_helpers.ts

@@ -10,13 +10,11 @@ import {
   loggingSystemMock,
   elasticsearchServiceMock,
 } from '@kbn/core/server/mocks';
-import { bfetchPluginMock } from '@kbn/bfetch-plugin/server/mocks';
 import { expressionsPluginMock } from '@kbn/expressions-plugin/server/mocks';
 
 export function getMockedRouterDeps() {
   const httpService = httpServiceMock.createSetupContract();
   const elasticsearch = elasticsearchServiceMock.createSetup();
-  const bfetch = bfetchPluginMock.createSetupContract();
   const expressions = expressionsPluginMock.createSetupContract();
   const router = httpService.createRouter();
 
@@ -24,7 +22,6 @@ export function getMockedRouterDeps() {
     router,
     expressions,
     elasticsearch,
-    bfetch,
     logger: loggingSystemMock.create().get(),
   };
 }

x-pack/plugins/canvas/tsconfig.json

@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@
   "kbn_references": [
     { "path": "../../../src/setup_node_env/tsconfig.json" },
     "@kbn/core",
-    "@kbn/bfetch-plugin",
     "@kbn/charts-plugin",
     "@kbn/data-plugin",
     "@kbn/share-plugin",