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Configuration¶
OroSearchBundle provides options that can be used to customize the search functionality.
System Configuration¶
All configuration data is placed in the configuration under alias
oro_search. Let us look at the configuration example:
oro_search:
engine: orm
engine_parameters:
...
log_queries: true
item_container_template: MyBundle:Search:itemContainer.html.twig
entities_config:
...
Description of parameters:
engine, default “orm” (converted to container parameter oro_search.engine) - specifies the search engine name used to perform search and indexation (see section Search Engine Configuration);
engine_parameters (converted to the container parameter oro_search.engine_parameters) - additional parameters of the search engine used for initialization (f.e. IP, port, credentials etc);
log_queries, default false (converted to container parameter oro_search.log_queries) - flag that defines whether it is necessary to log search queries to the database;
item_container_template, default “OroSearchBundle:Datagrid:itemContainer.html.twig” (converted to container parameter oro_search.twig.item_container_template) - template used to render entity row in search results;
entities_config (converted to container parameter oro_search.entities_config) - entity search configuration, can be used to override the default entity search configuration (see section Entity Configuration).
Configuration Merging¶
All configurations merge in the boot bundles order. The application collects configurations of all nodes with the same name and merges them into one configuration. Merging uses simple rules:
if the node value is scalar, the value will be replaced
if the node value is an array:
by default the value will be replaced
for node ‘fields’ this array will be appended by values from the second configuration.
After this step, the application knows about all entity search configurations from the search.yml files and has only one configuration for each entity.
Example
Acme/Bundle/DemoBundle/Resources/config/oro/search.yml:
Acme\Bundle\DemoBundle\Entity\Tag:
alias: acme_tag
title_fields: [name]
search_template: DemoBundle:Search:result.html.twig
route:
name: acme_tag_search
parameters:
id: id
fields:
-
name: name
target_type: text
target_fields: [name]
AcmeCRM/Bundle/DemoBundle/Resources/config/search.yml:
Acme\Bundle\DemoBundle\Entity\Tag:
alias: acme_tag
title_fields: [subject]
fields:
-
name: subject
target_type: text
target_fields: [subject]
Result:
alias: acme_tag
title_fields: [subject]
search_template: DemoBundle:Search:result.html.twig
route:
name: acme_tag_search
parameters:
id: id
fields:
-
name: name
target_type: text
target_fields: [name]
-
name: subject
target_type: text
target_fields: [subject]
Entity Configuration¶
After insert, update or delete entity records, the search index must be updated. The search index consists of data from entities by mapping parameters. Entity search configuration maps fields to the virtual search fields in the search index.
Entity search configuration can be stored in main config.yml file (in
oro_search config section) or in search.yml files in the config
directory of the bundle.
Configuration is an array that contains info about the bundle name, entity name
and the array of fields. Fields array contains the array of field name and field
type. Data from all text fields will be stored in the all_text virtual field.
Additionally, all the fields will be stored in the fieldName virtual
fields, if the target_fields parameter is not set.
Example:
Acme\DemoBundle\Entity\Product:
alias: demo_product # Alias for 'from' keyword in advanced search
search_template: AcmeDemoBundle:result.html.twig # Template to use in search result page for this entity type
label: Demo products # Label for entity to identify entity in search results
route:
name: acme_demo_search_product # Route name to generate url link to the entity record
parameters: # Array with parameters for route
id: id
mode: normal # optional, default normal. Defines behavior for entities
title_fields: [name] # with inheritance hierarchy. See possible values in config
fields: # dump reference or in class constants Oro\Bundle\SearchBundle\Query\Mode
-
name: name # Name of field in entity
target_type: text # Type of virtual search field. Supported target types:
# text (string and text fields), integer, double, datetime
-
name: description
target_type: text
target_fields: [description, another_index_name] # Array of virtual fields for entity field from 'name' parameter.
-
name: manufacturer
relation_type: many-to-one # Indicate that this field is relation field to another table.
# Supported: one-to-one, many-to-many, one-to-many, many-to-one.
relation_fields: # Array of fields from relation record we must to index.
-
name: name # related entity field name to index
target_type: text # related entity field name type
target_fields: [manufacturer, all_data] # target fields to store field index
-
name: id
target_type: integer
target_fields: [manufacturer]
-
name: categories
relation_type: many-to-many
relation_fields:
-
name: name
target_type: text
target_fields: [all_data]
Search Engine Configuration¶
The search bundle provides the ability to use different search engines through the common interface.
Used search engine is defined in the configuration under oro_search.engine
key. To make engine work, at least one bundle must have s file with the
Resources/config/oro/search_engine/<engine_name>.yml name that contains the
configuration of search engine services that will be added to container
services.
To make the engine work, two services must be defined in the engine configuration:
search service oro_search.search.engine must implement Oro\Bundle\SearchBundle\Engine\EngineInterface.
indexer service oro_search.search.engine.indexer must implement Oro\Bundle\SearchBundle\Engine\IndexerInterface.
To make implementation easier, there are abstract classes Oro\Bundle\SearchBundle\Engine\AbstractEngine and Oro\Bundle\SearchBundle\Engine\AbstractIndexer that provide useful functionality (such as logging, queuing etc).
If the search engine requires some additional parameters (credentials, index configuration etc.), then they can be passed through the configuration using the oro_search.engine_parameters key, so these parameters can be injected into search services.
Also, engine configuration can override existing services to support some specific use cases of the search engine (e.g. ORM engine overrides index listener to support single flush).
Datagrid Configuration¶
The SearchBundle supplies a datasource that can be used interchangeably with the default ORM datasource. This datasource feeds pure search index data, bypassing the default DBMS, thus allowing pure index storage layer driven datagrids to be built.
The following is an example of a DatagridBundle’s configuration entry in the
Resources/config/oro/datagrids.yml file that builds a simple user
datagrid using search index data only:
user-search-grid:
source:
type: search
query:
select:
- text.username as name
- text.email
from:
- oro_user
columns:
name:
label: oro.user.username.label
data_name: name
email:
label: oro.user.email.label
data_name: email
sorters:
columns:
name:
data_name: username
type: string
email:
data_name: email
type: string
default:
name: ASC
filters:
columns:
quick_search:
label: 'Quick search'
type: string
data_name: all_text
name:
type: string
data_name: username
email:
type: string
data_name: email
properties:
id: ~
view_link:
type: url
route: oro_user_view
params:
- id
update_link:
type: url
route: oro_user_update
params:
- id
delete_link:
type: url
route: oro_api_delete_user
params:
- id
actions:
view:
type: navigate
label: oro.grid.action.view
link: view_link
icon: eye
acl_resource: oro_user_user_view
rowAction: true
update:
type: navigate
label: oro.grid.action.update
link: update_link
icon: edit
acl_resource: oro_user_user_update
delete:
type: delete
label: oro.grid.action.delete
link: delete_link
icon: trash
acl_resource: oro_user_user_delete