How does it work?

SearchBase is a provider component that provides the SearchBase context to the child components. It binds the backend app (data source) with the UI view components (elements wrapped within SearchBase), allowing a UI component to be reactively updated every time there is a change in the data source or in other UI components.

Props

To configure the Appbase environments

  • index string [Required] Refers to an index of the Elasticsearch cluster.

    Note: Multiple indexes can be connected to by specifying comma-separated index names.

  • url string [Required] URL for the Elasticsearch cluster

  • credentials string [Required] Basic Auth credentials if required for authentication purposes. It should be a string of the format username:password. If you are using an appbase.io cluster, you will find credentials under the Security > API credentials section of the appbase.io dashboard.

  • appbaseConfig Object allows you to customize the analytics experience when appbase.io is used as a backend. It accepts an object which has the following properties:

    • recordAnalytics Boolean allows recording search analytics (and click analytics) when set to true and appbase.io is used as a backend. Defaults to false.
    • enableQueryRules Boolean If false, then appbase.io will not apply the query rules on the search requests. Defaults to true.
    • enableSearchRelevancy Boolean defaults to true. It allows you to configure whether to apply the search relevancy or not.
    • userId string It allows you to define the user id to be used to record the appbase.io analytics. Defaults to the client's IP address.
    • useCache Boolean This property when set allows you to cache the current search query. The useCache property takes precedence irrespective of whether caching is enabled or disabled via the dashboard.
    • customEvents Object It allows you to set the custom events which can be used to build your own analytics on top of appbase.io analytics. Further, these events can be used to filter the analytics stats from the appbase.io dashboard.
    • enableTelemetry Boolean When set to false, disable the telemetry. Defaults to true.

To customize the query execution

  • headers Object [optional] set custom headers to be sent with each server request as key/value pairs.

  • transformRequest Function Enables transformation of network request before execution. This function will give you the request object as the param and expect an updated request in return, for execution.

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<SearchBase
    index="gitxplore-app"
    url="https://@arc-cluster-appbase-demo-6pjy6z.searchbase.io"
    credentials="a03a1cb71321:75b6603d-9456-4a5a-af6b-a487b309eb61"
    transformRequest={request =>
        Promise.resolve({
            ...request,
            credentials: include,
        })}
/>
  • transformResponse Function Enables transformation of search network response before
    rendering them. It is an asynchronous function which will accept an Elasticsearch response object as param and is expected to return an updated response as the return value.
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<SearchBase
    index="gitxplore-app"
    url="https://@arc-cluster-appbase-demo-6pjy6z.searchbase.io"
    credentials="a03a1cb71321:75b6603d-9456-4a5a-af6b-a487b309eb61"
    transformResponse={async elasticsearchResponse => {
        const ids = elasticsearchResponse.hits.hits.map(item => item._id);
        const extraInformation = await getExtraInformation(ids);
        const hits = elasticsearchResponse.hits.hits.map(item => {
            const extraInformationItem = extraInformation.find(
                otherItem => otherItem._id === item._id,
            );
            return {
                ...item,
                ...extraInformationItem,
            };
        });

        return {
            ...elasticsearchResponse,
            hits: {
                ...elasticsearchResponse.hits,
                hits,
            },
        };
    }}
/>

Note: transformResponse function is expected to return data in the following structure.

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{
    // Elasticsearch hits response
    hits: {
        hits: [...],
        total: 100
    },
    // Elasticsearch aggregations response
    aggregations: {

    }
    took: 1
}

Advanced Usage

While the react-searchbox library should give you good controls out of the box to build the powerful search UIs, there can be times when you need access to the state (context) of the components.

Example Use Cases

One would need to use the state (context) of the search components, e.g. to show a list of all active user query inputs including the ability to unselect an input to affect the particular search component's input as well.

Another use can be to create a saved query feature where it's important persist the state of all the search and filter components.

Basic Usage

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import { SearchContext } from '@appbaseio/react-searchbox';

class AdvancedComponent extends React.Component {
    static contextType = SearchContext;
    render() {
        console.log(this.context.searchbase.getComponent('component-id'));
        return null;
    }
}

Properties

  • getComponents Function: () => Object<string, Object> returns an object, which is a list of all SearchComponent instances contained within the SearchBase context as key value pairs with component ids as the key names.

  • getComponent Function: (String) => Object returns the SearchComponent instance object contained within the SearchBase context for the provided component id.

Example The below example renders the active filters using a separate <SelectedFilters /> component, which uses the SearchContext to access various SearchComponent instances.