Enable grok processor to support long, double and boolean #38000
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Adds support for long,double,boolean coercion in grok expression.
backport of #27896.
note: the original commit contents was changed to the point that cherry-picking/merging
was more complicated than the commit itself due to directory structure changes.
this represents the work that @kiawin did in the original PR