Elastica integration in Symfony2
For Symfony 2.0.x projects, you must use a 1.x release of this bundle. Please check the bundle tags or the Packagist page for information on Symfony and Elastica compatibility.
Add FOSElasticaBundle to your application's composer.json
file:
{
"require": {
"friendsofsymfony/elastica-bundle": "~2.0"
}
}
Install the bundle and its dependencies with the following command:
$ php composer.phar update friendsofsymfony/elastica-bundle
You may rely on Composer to fetch the appropriate version of Elastica. Lastly, enable the bundle in your application kernel:
// app/AppKernel.php
public function registerBundles()
{
$bundles = array(
// ...
new FOS\ElasticaBundle\FOSElasticaBundle(),
);
}
Instructions for installing and deploying Elasticsearch may be found here.
Elasticsearch client is comparable to a database connection. Most of the time, you will need only one.
#app/config/config.yml
fos_elastica:
clients:
default: { host: localhost, port: 9200 }
Elastica can handle objects instead of data arrays if a serializer callable is configured
#app/config/config.yml
fos_elastica:
clients:
default: { host: localhost, port: 9200 }
serializer:
callback_class: callback_class
serializer: serializer
callback_class
is the name of a class having a public method serialize($object) and should
extends from FOS\ElasticaBundle\Serializer\Callback
.
serializer
is the service id for the actual serializer, e.g. serializer
if you're using
JMSSerializerBundle. If this is configured you can use \Elastica\Type::addObject
instead of
\Elastica\Type::addDocument
to add data to the index. The bundle provides a default implementation
with a serializer service id 'serializer' that can be turned on by adding the following line to your config.
#app/config/config.yml
fos_elastica:
serializer: ~
Elasticsearch index is comparable to Doctrine entity manager. Most of the time, you will need only one.
fos_elastica:
clients:
default: { host: localhost, port: 9200 }
serializer:
callback_class: FOS\ElasticaBundle\Serializer\Callback
id: serializer
indexes:
website:
client: default
Here we created a "website" index, that uses our "default" client.
Our index is now available as a service: fos_elastica.index.website
. It is an instance of \Elastica\Index
.
If you need to have different index name from the service name, for example,
in order to have different indexes for different environments then you can
use the index_name
key to change the index name. The service name will
remain the same across the environments:
fos_elastica:
clients:
default: { host: localhost, port: 9200 }
indexes:
website:
client: default
index_name: website_qa
The service id will be fos_elastica.index.website
but the underlying index name is website_qa.
Elasticsearch type is comparable to Doctrine entity repository.
fos_elastica:
clients:
default: { host: localhost, port: 9200 }
serializer:
callback_class: FOS\ElasticaBundle\Serializer\Callback
id: serializer
indexes:
website:
client: default
types:
user:
mappings:
username: { boost: 5 }
firstName: { boost: 3 }
lastName: { boost: 3 }
aboutMe: ~
Our type is now available as a service: fos_elastica.index.website.user
. It is an instance of \Elastica\Type
.
If you are using the JMSSerializerBundle for serializing objects passed to elastica you can define serializer groups per type.
fos_elastica:
clients:
default: { host: localhost, port: 9200 }
serializer:
callback_class: %classname%
id: serializer
indexes:
website:
client: default
types:
user:
mappings:
username: { boost: 5 }
firstName: { boost: 3 }
lastName: { boost: 3 }
aboutMe:
serializer:
groups: [elastica, Default]
fos_elastica:
clients:
default: { host: localhost, port: 9200 }
serializer:
callback_class_class: FOS\ElasticaBundle\Serializer\Callback
id: serializer
indexes:
website:
client: default
types:
comment:
mappings:
post: {_parent: { type: "post", identifier: "id" } }
date: { boost: 5 }
content: ~
fos_elastica:
clients:
default: { host: localhost, port: 9200 }
serializer:
callback_class: FOS\ElasticaBundle\Serializer\Callback
id: serializer
indexes:
website:
client: default
types:
post:
mappings:
date: { boost: 5 }
title: { boost: 3 }
content: ~
comments:
type: "nested"
properties:
date: { boost: 5 }
content: ~
php app/console fos:elastica:populate
This command deletes and creates the declared indexes and types. It applies the configured mappings to the types.
This command needs providers to insert new documents in the elasticsearch types. There are 2 ways to create providers. If your elasticsearch type matches a Doctrine repository or a Propel query, go for the persistence automatic provider. Or, for complete flexibility, go for manual provider.
If we want to index the entities from a Doctrine repository or a Propel query, some configuration will let ElasticaBundle do it for us.
fos_elastica:
clients:
default: { host: localhost, port: 9200 }
serializer:
callback_class: FOS\ElasticaBundle\Serializer\Callback
id: serializer
indexes:
website:
client: default
types:
user:
mappings:
username: { boost: 5 }
firstName: { boost: 3 }
# more mappings...
persistence:
driver: orm # orm, mongodb, propel are available
model: Application\UserBundle\Entity\User
provider: ~
Three drivers are actually supported: orm, mongodb, and propel.
You can control which entities will be indexed by specifying a custom query builder method.
persistence:
driver: orm
model: Application\UserBundle\Entity\User
provider:
query_builder_method: createIsActiveQueryBuilder
Your repository must implement this method and return a Doctrine query builder.
Propel doesn't support this feature yet.
By default, ElasticaBundle will index documents by packets of 100. You can change this value in the provider configuration.
persistence:
driver: orm
model: Application\UserBundle\Entity\User
provider:
batch_size: 100
By default, ElasticaBundle will use the id
field of your entities as the elasticsearch document identifier.
You can change this value in the persistence configuration.
persistence:
driver: orm
model: Application\UserBundle\Entity\User
identifier: id
Create a service with the tag "fos_elastica.provider" and attributes for the index and type for which the service will provide.
<service id="acme.search_provider.user" class="Acme\UserBundle\Search\UserProvider">
<tag name="fos_elastica.provider" index="website" type="user" />
<argument type="service" id="fos_elastica.index.website.user" />
</service>
Its class must implement FOS\ElasticaBundle\Provider\ProviderInterface
.
<?php
namespace Acme\UserBundle\Provider;
use FOS\ElasticaBundle\Provider\ProviderInterface;
use Elastica\Type;
use Elastica\Document;
class UserProvider implements ProviderInterface
{
protected $userType;
public function __construct(Type $userType)
{
$this->userType = $userType;
}
/**
* Insert the repository objects in the type index
*
* @param Closure $loggerClosure
*/
public function populate(Closure $loggerClosure = null)
{
if ($loggerClosure) {
$loggerClosure('Indexing users');
}
$document = new Document();
$document->setData(array('username' => 'Bob'));
$this->userType->addDocuments(array($document));
}
}
You will find a more complete implementation example in src/FOS/ElasticaBundle/Doctrine/AbstractProvider.php
.
You can just use the index and type Elastica objects, provided as services, to perform searches.
/** var Elastica\Type */
$userType = $this->container->get('fos_elastica.index.website.user');
/** var Elastica\ResultSet */
$resultSet = $userType->search('bob');
If your elasticsearch type is bound to a Doctrine entity repository or a Propel query, you can get your entities instead of Elastica results when you perform a search. Declare that you want a Doctrine/Propel finder in your configuration:
fos_elastica:
clients:
default: { host: localhost, port: 9200 }
serializer:
callback_class: FOS\ElasticaBundle\Serializer\Callback
id: serializer
indexes:
website:
client: default
types:
user:
mappings:
# your mappings
persistence:
driver: orm
model: Application\UserBundle\Entity\User
provider: ~
finder: ~
You can now use the fos_elastica.finder.website.user
service:
/** var FOS\ElasticaBundle\Finder\TransformedFinder */
$finder = $container->get('fos_elastica.finder.website.user');
/** var array of Acme\UserBundle\Entity\User */
$users = $finder->find('bob');
/** var array of Acme\UserBundle\Entity\User limited to 10 results */
$users = $finder->find('bob', 10);
You can even get paginated results!
Pagerfanta:
/** var Pagerfanta\Pagerfanta */
$userPaginator = $finder->findPaginated('bob');
Knp paginator:
$paginator = $this->get('knp_paginator');
$userPaginator = $paginator->paginate($finder->createPaginatorAdapter('bob'));
You can also get both the Elastica results and the entities together from the finder. You can then access the score, highlights etc. from the Elastica\Result whilst still also getting the entity.
/** var array of FOS\ElasticaBundle\HybridResult */
$hybridResults = $finder->findHybrid('bob');
foreach ($hybridResults as $hybridResult) {
/** var Acme\UserBundle\Entity\User */
$user = $hybridResult->getTransformed();
/** var Elastica\Result */
$result = $hybridResult->getResult();
}
You can also define a finder that will work on the entire index. Adjust your index configuration as per below:
fos_elastica:
indexes:
website:
client: default
finder: ~
You can now use the index wide finder service fos_elastica.finder.website
:
/** var FOS\ElasticaBundle\Finder\MappedFinder */
$finder = $container->get('fos_elastica.finder.website');
// Returns a mixed array of any objects mapped
$results = $finder->find('bob');
As well as using the finder service for a particular Doctrine/Propel entity you can use a manager service for each driver and get a repository for an entity to search against. This allows you to use the same service rather than the particular finder. For example:
/** var FOS\ElasticaBundle\Manager\RepositoryManager */
$repositoryManager = $container->get('fos_elastica.manager.orm');
/** var FOS\ElasticaBundle\Repository */
$repository = $repositoryManager->getRepository('UserBundle:User');
/** var array of Acme\UserBundle\Entity\User */
$users = $repository->find('bob');
You can also specify the full name of the entity instead of the shortcut syntax:
/** var FOS\ElasticaBundle\Repository */
$repository = $repositoryManager->getRepository('Application\UserBundle\Entity\User');
The 2.0 branch doesn't support using
UserBundle:User
style syntax and you must use the full name of the entity. .
If you are only using one driver then its manager service is automatically aliased
to fos_elastica.manager
. So the above example could be simplified to:
/** var FOS\ElasticaBundle\Manager\RepositoryManager */
$repositoryManager = $container->get('fos_elastica.manager');
/** var FOS\ElasticaBundle\Repository */
$repository = $repositoryManager->getRepository('UserBundle:User');
/** var array of Acme\UserBundle\Entity\User */
$users = $repository->find('bob');
If you use multiple drivers then you can choose which one is aliased to fos_elastica.manager
using the default_manager
parameter:
fos_elastica:
default_manager: mongodb #defauults to orm
clients:
default: { host: localhost, port: 9200 }
#--
As well as the default repository you can create a custom repository for an entity and add
methods for particular searches. These need to extend FOS\ElasticaBundle\Repository
to have
access to the finder:
<?php
namespace Acme\ElasticaBundle\SearchRepository;
use FOS\ElasticaBundle\Repository;
class UserRepository extends Repository
{
public function findWithCustomQuery($searchText)
{
// build $query with Elastica objects
$this->find($query);
}
}
To use the custom repository specify it in the mapping for the entity:
fos_elastica:
clients:
default: { host: localhost, port: 9200 }
indexes:
website:
client: default
types:
user:
mappings:
# your mappings
persistence:
driver: orm
model: Application\UserBundle\Entity\User
provider: ~
finder: ~
repository: Acme\ElasticaBundle\SearchRepository\UserRepository
Then the custom queries will be available when using the repository returned from the manager:
/** var FOS\ElasticaBundle\Manager\RepositoryManager */
$repositoryManager = $container->get('fos_elastica.manager');
/** var FOS\ElasticaBundle\Repository */
$repository = $repositoryManager->getRepository('UserBundle:User');
/** var array of Acme\UserBundle\Entity\User */
$users = $repository->findWithCustomQuery('bob');
Alternatively you can specify the custom repository using an annotation in the entity:
<?php
namespace Application\UserBundle\Entity;
use FOS\ElasticaBundle\Configuration\Search;
/**
* @Search(repositoryClass="Acme\ElasticaBundle\SearchRepository\UserRepository")
*/
class User
{
//---
}
If you use the Doctrine integration, you can let ElasticaBundle update the indexes automatically when an object is added, updated or removed. It uses Doctrine lifecycle events. Declare that you want to update the index in real time:
fos_elastica:
clients:
default: { host: localhost, port: 9200 }
indexes:
website:
client: default
types:
user:
mappings:
# your mappings
persistence:
driver: orm
model: Application\UserBundle\Entity\User
listener: # by default, listens to "insert", "update" and "delete"
Now the index is automatically updated each time the state of the bound Doctrine repository changes.
No need to repopulate the whole "user" index when a new User
is created.
You can also choose to only listen for some of the events:
persistence:
listener:
insert: true
update: false
delete: true
Propel doesn't support this feature yet.
If you use listeners to update your index, you may need to validate your
entities before you index them (e.g. only index "public" entities). Typically,
you'll want the listener to be consistent with the provider's query criteria.
This may be achieved by using the is_indexable_callback_class
config parameter:
persistence:
listener:
is_indexable_callback_class: "isPublic"
If is_indexable_callback_class
is a string and the entity has a method with the
specified name, the listener will only index entities for which the method
returns true
. Additionally, you may provide a service and method name pair:
persistence:
listener:
is_indexable_callback_class: [ "%custom_service_id%", "isIndexable" ]
In this case, the callback_class will be the isIndexable()
method on the specified
service and the object being considered for indexing will be passed as the only
argument. This allows you to do more complex validation (e.g. ACL checks).
As you might expect, new entities will only be indexed if the callback_class returns
true
. Additionally, modified entities will be updated or removed from the
index depending on whether the callback_class returns true
or false
, respectively.
The delete listener disregards the callback_class.
Propel doesn't support this feature yet.
By default, FOSElasticaBundle will throw an exception if the results returned from Elasticsearch are different from the results it finds from the chosen persistence provider. This may pose problems for a large index where updates do not occur instantly or another process has removed the results from your persistence provider without updating Elasticsearch.
The error you're likely to see is something like: 'Cannot find corresponding Doctrine objects for all Elastica results.'
To solve this issue, each mapped object can be configured to ignore the missing results:
persistence:
elastica_to_model_transformer:
ignore_missing: true
Any setting can be specified when declaring a type. For example, to enable a custom analyzer, you could write:
fos_elastica:
indexes:
doc:
settings:
index:
analysis:
analyzer:
my_analyzer:
type: custom
tokenizer: lowercase
filter : [my_ngram]
filter:
my_ngram:
type: "nGram"
min_gram: 3
max_gram: 5
types:
blog:
mappings:
title: { boost: 8, analyzer: my_analyzer }
By default, exceptions from the Elastica client library will propagate through
the bundle's Client class. For instance, if the elasticsearch server is offline,
issuing a request will result in an Elastica\Exception\Connection
being thrown.
Depending on your needs, it may be desirable to suppress these exceptions and
allow searches to fail silently.
One way to achieve this is to override the fos_elastica.client.class
service
container parameter with a custom class. In the following example, we override
the Client::request()
method and return the equivalent of an empty search
response if an exception occurred.
<?php
namespace Acme\ElasticaBundle;
use FOS\ElasticaBundle\Client as BaseClient;
use Elastica\Exception\ExceptionInterface;
use Elastica\Response;
class Client extends BaseClient
{
public function request($path, $method, $data = array())
{
try {
return parent::request($path, $method, $data);
} catch (ExceptionInterface $e) {
return new Response('{"took":0,"timed_out":false,"hits":{"total":0,"max_score":0,"hits":[]}}');
}
}
}
If you would like to perform more advanced queries, here is one example using the snowball stemming algorithm.
It searches for Article entities using title
, tags
, and categoryIds
.
Results must match at least one specified categoryIds
, and should match the
title
or tags
criteria. Additionally, we define a snowball analyzer to
apply to queries against the title
field.
$finder = $this->container->get('fos_elastica.finder.website.article');
$boolQuery = new \Elastica\Query\Bool();
$fieldQuery = new \Elastica\Query\Text();
$fieldQuery->setFieldQuery('title', 'I am a title string');
$fieldQuery->setFieldParam('title', 'analyzer', 'my_analyzer');
$boolQuery->addShould($fieldQuery);
$tagsQuery = new \Elastica\Query\Terms();
$tagsQuery->setTerms('tags', array('tag1', 'tag2'));
$boolQuery->addShould($tagsQuery);
$categoryQuery = new \Elastica\Query\Terms();
$categoryQuery->setTerms('categoryIds', array('1', '2', '3'));
$boolQuery->addMust($categoryQuery);
$data = $finder->find($boolQuery);
Configuration:
fos_elastica:
clients:
default: { host: localhost, port: 9200 }
indexes:
site:
settings:
index:
analysis:
analyzer:
my_analyzer:
type: snowball
language: English
types:
article:
mappings:
title: { boost: 10, analyzer: my_analyzer }
tags:
categoryIds:
persistence:
driver: orm
model: Acme\DemoBundle\Entity\Article
provider:
finder: