make popularize function

Author: mattkime

src/plugins/discover/public/application/helpers/popularize_field.ts

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+/*
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+ * the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+ * not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
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+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
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+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+import { IndexPattern, IndexPatternsService } from '../../../../data/public';
+
+/*
+ * This function is just used by Discover and it's high likely to be removed in the near future
+ * It doesn't use the save function to skip the error message that's displayed when
+ * a user adds several columns in a higher frequency that the changes can be persisted to ES
+ * resulting in 409 errors
+ */
+
+async function popularizeField(
+  indexPattern: IndexPattern,
+  fieldName: string,
+  indexPatternsService: IndexPatternsService
+) {
+  if (!indexPattern.id) return;
+  const field = indexPattern.fields.getByName(fieldName);
+  if (!field) {
+    return;
+  }
+
+  field.count++;
+  await indexPatternsService.updateSavedObject(indexPattern, 0, true).catch();
+}
+
+export { popularizeField };