Restrict search to specific domains

Question

I'm using the elasticsearch plugin and I'm running searches using elasticSearchService.search(myKeywords) which searches for keywords over all the domain classes marked as searchable.

Now I want to restrict the search to two specif domain classes. I can see there are options named indices and types that can be passed to the search method, but if I simply use my domain class names on them I get errors telling the index or type doesn't exist. What exactly should I do to achieve what I want?

(I'm new to lucene and elasticsearch and I'm not sure I understood the index and type concepts. Reading the docs I could only find examples to restrict searches to an specific field, not a hole domain class or whatever it is mapped to, in lucene/elasticsearch concepts).

Inspecting elasticSearchAdminService.indices I can see one index created for each of my domain classes. The names look like "org.mypackage_v0". Reading the docs I found out that the expected behavior should be one index for the hole database and that each domain (table) should be mapped as a type. How can I do that? — Cléssio Mendes

Cléssio Mendes Cléssio Mendes · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-24T06:28:40

The way to go is:

elasticSearchService.search(myKeywords, [types:["myPackage.MyClass","myPackage.MyOtherClass"]])

The results are as expected, but I'm still worried about having one index (and one type) per domain. Not what I expected but I can't see how to map all domain classes to a single index for the hole database as stated by the docs

Restrict search to specific domains

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