[DOC] Explain the differences between search timeouts

[snikoyo]

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I would like to set a timeout on a search request and found two methods in the Java client, searchRequest.setCancelAfterTimeInterval and SearchSourceBuilder.timeout. I could find no documentation at all for setCancelAfterTimeInterval. After reading some issues in the Elasticsearch repository I make the more or less educated gues that the first one is a general timeout while the timeout on the SearchSourceBuilder is set on the shard level. Some documentation to distinguish the two would be very helpful. It would also be good to know if SearchResponse.isTimedOut refers to both of these timeouts or only one of them.

[hdhalter]

Submitted an issue in the Java client repo for the team to address.

[dblock]

@snikoyo Thanks, looks like you dug out what these options actually mean - do you want to try to PR an update to the user guide in this repo?

[snikoyo]

No, I don't actually know, I'm just guessing after reading elastic/elasticsearch#56258 and
elastic/elasticsearch#30897