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Integrate Elasticsearch to laravel
Elasticsearch is one of the most commonly used packages for laravel for a better searching capabilities. Here is how to integrate ElasticSearch into your laravel application so that whenever you add/update/delete any record it will be automatically indexed and updated in the elasticsearch index.
This tutorial will have three different sections as follows:
- Managing indices: Creating, Dropping, Adding mapping or settings ElasticSearch indices.
- Integrating ElasticSearch to your models, so that it will be reflected automatically in the corresponding index (This is what we will be discussing in this article)
- Creating the search functionality against both DB and ElasticSearc.
Now Let's start on integrating ElasticSearch to our models.
For this to work we will do the follow the coming steps:
- We will create a laravel job for indexing documents.
- We will create a laravel job for deleting a document from an index.
- We will create a model observer to auto-fire the indexing funcationaly whenever a model is saved() or deleted().
- We can then generalize the whole concept so that it works with any model and not a specific mode.
Let's start on creating the laravel jobs for indexing (new|updated) document, and the one for deleting one. This step is supposed to be done after you have your models set correctly.
//Run the following artisan command
php artisan make:job IndexArticleElasticsearchJob
//This will create the following file
<?php
namespace App\Jobs;
use App\Models\Article;
use Elasticsearch\Client;
use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Bus\Dispatchable;
use Illuminate\Queue\InteractsWithQueue;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
class IndexArticleElasticsearchJob implements ShouldQueue
{
use Dispatchable, InteractsWithQueue, Queueable, SerializesModels;
protected $article;
/**
* IndexArticleElasticsearchJob constructor.
* @param Article $article
*/
public function __construct(Article $article)
{
$this->article = $article;
}
/**
* Execute the job.
* @param Client $client
*/
public function handle(Client $client)
{
$params = [
'index' => 'articles',
'id' => $this->article->id,
'body' => $this->article->toArray(),
];
$client->index($params);
}
}And now we will create another job for deleteing a document
php artisan make:job RemoveArticleElasticsearchJob
//This will create the following file
<?php
namespace App\Jobs;
use Elasticsearch\Client;
use Elasticsearch\Common\Exceptions\Missing404Exception;
use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Bus\Dispatchable;
use Illuminate\Queue\InteractsWithQueue;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
class RemoveArticleElasticsearchJob implements ShouldQueue
{
use Dispatchable, InteractsWithQueue, Queueable, SerializesModels;
protected $articleId;
public function __construct($articleId)
{
$this->articleId = $articleId;
}
public function handle(Client $client)
{
$params = [
'index' => 'articles-v1',
'id' => $this->articleId,
];
try {
$client->delete($params);
} catch (Missing404Exception $exception) {
// Already deleted..
}
}
}Now we will create an observer so that it will fire automatically when ever any record is added/updated or deleted:
php artisan make:observer ArticleObserver --model=Article
//This will create the following file:
<?php
namespace App\Observers;
use App\Jobs\IndexArticleElasticsearchJob;
use App\Jobs\RemoveArticleElasticsearchJob;
use App\Models\Article;
class ArticleObserver
{
/**
* Handle the Article "created" event.
*
* @param \App\Models\Article $article
* @return void
*/
public function created(Article $article)
{
if ($article->is_active) {
dispatch(new IndexArticleElasticsearchJob($article));
}
}
/**
* Handle the Article "updated" event.
*
* @param \App\Models\Article $article
* @return void
*/
public function updated(Article $article)
{
if ($article->is_active) {
dispatch(new IndexArticleElasticsearchJob($article));
} else {
dispatch(new RemoveArticleElasticsearchJob($article->id));
}
}
/**
* Handle the Article "deleted" event.
*
* @param \App\Models\Article $article
* @return void
*/
public function deleted(Article $article)
{
dispatch(new RemoveArticleElasticsearchJob($article->id));
}
/**
* Handle the Article "restored" event.
*
* @param \App\Models\Article $article
* @return void
*/
public function restored(Article $article)
{
if ($article->is_active) {
dispatch(new IndexArticleElasticsearchJob($article));
}
}
/**
* Handle the Article "force deleted" event.
*
* @param \App\Models\Article $article
* @return void
*/
public function forceDeleted(Article $article)
{
dispatch(new RemoveArticleElasticsearchJob($article->id));
}
}Now we need to activate the Observer using one of the following two methods:
- Usingthe AppServiceProvider's boot section
/**
* Bootstrap any application services.
*
* @return void
*/
public function boot()
{
\App\Models\Article::observe(\App\Observers\ArticleObserver::class);
}
- Or when generalizing the idea to all models, you can set it in the model itself or in a trait such as Searchable trait
public static function bootSearchable() {
static::observe(\App\Observers\ArticleObserver::class);
}
Now you are set and whenever any article is being added, updated or deleted it will be automatically indexed,Re-indexed or deleted from the corresponding elasticsearch index.
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