Node.js v6 will go EOL at the end of April 2019, and already two of the production dependencies of the client have already dropped support for it, and soon others will do *(as well as development dependencies)*.
Furthermore, since Node.js will go in EOL it will never get security patches, plus, also OpenSSL-1.0.2 will go EOL [this year](https://github.com/nodejs/Release#release-schedule); to avoid risks for the client users it is better to drop support for Node.js v6 right away.
In very few cases, some API uses the same key for both url and query params, such as the bulk method.
The client is not designed to handle such cases since accepts both url and query keys in the same object, and the url parameter will always take precedence.
This pr fixes this edge case by adding a `querystring` key in the options object.
Fixes: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-js/pull/778
```js
client.bulk({
index: 'index',
type: '_doc',
body: [...]
}, {
querystring: {
type: '_doc'
}
}, console.log)
```
With this pr we introduce the `client.child` API, which returns a new client instance that shares the connection pool with the parent client.
This feature can be handy if you need to have multiple client instances with different configurations, but with a shared connection pool.
Example:
```js
const { Client } = require('@elastic/elasticsearch')
const client = new Client({ node: 'http://localhost:9200' })
const child = client.child({
headers: { 'x-foo': 'bar' },
requestTimeout: 1000
})
client.info(console.log)
child.info(console.log)
```
**Open questions:**
* Currently, the event emitter is shared between the parent and the child(ren), is it ok?
* Currently, if you extend the parent client, the child client will have the same extensions, while if the child client adds an extension, the parent client will not be extended. Is it ok?
**Caveats:**
* You can override _any_ option except for the connection pool specific options (`ssl`, `agent`, `pingTimeout`, `Connection`, and `resurrectStrategy`).
* You can't specify a new `Connection` class.
* If you call `close` in any of the parent/child clients, every client will be closed.
_Note: the `nodeFilter` and `nodeSelector` options are now `Transport` options and no longer `ConnectionPool` options._
