Algolia

The Enterspeed Algolia integration uses the destinations field to send data from views directly to a configured Algolia index. This means that you can decide on the schema level which views you want to send to Algolia.

You will only have to set the destination field on the entity schema you want to send to Algolia. All schema references are automatically resolved so you don't have to set it on all referenced schemas.

It's possible to configure multiple Algolia destinations if you need to push different types of data to different Algolia indexes.

Configuration

In order to setup the Algolia configuration you need the following:

Setting	Description
Algolia Index Name	The name of the Algolia index you want to integrate to
Algolia Application ID	The unique application identifier used to identify you when working with Algolia's API
Algolia API Key	The API key needs addObject and deleteObject rights for the index you want to integrate to
Enterspeed Environment Client API Key	The API key for an Enterspeed Environment client. This is used to fetch the view that will be inserted into Algolia

Options

Table of available options, that you can optionally specify, if needed for your use case.

Setting	Description
objectId	By default Enterspeed uses view id as the value for object id in Algolia. You can override default object id by providing value for this option.
indexName	Option to override what index must be used for current view. By default IndexName of Algolia configuration is used.
partialUpdate	A boolean indicating if the update of the Algolia record should be a partial update. See Algolia documentation.
createIfNotExists	A boolean indicating if the partial update should create a record in Algolia if it does not already exists. Only used if partialUpdate is set to true

info

Algolia does not support partial deletes. This means that if you are using partial updates and you want to clear the attributes from the partial update, you should not delete the source entity that triggers the partial update in Enterspeed.

Instead you should update the source entity and set the properties to default values, like null, an empty string, an empty array and so on.

Example of usage

JavaScript

Schema with Algolia destination

/** @type {Enterspeed.FullSchema} */
export default {
  triggers: function(context) {
    context.triggers('geodata', ['city']);
  },
  actions: function (sourceEntity, context) {
    context.destination('algolia').options({
        objectId: `city-${sourceEntity.originId}`
        partialUpdate: false
    });
  },
  properties: function ({url, properties: p}, context) {
    return {
      url: url,
      name: p.name
    }
  }
}

JSON

Schema with Algolia destination

{
  "triggers": {
        "geodata": ["city"]
    },
  "destinations": [
    {
      "alias": "algolia",
      "options": {
          "objectId": "city-{originId}"
      }
    }
  ],
  "properties": {
    "url": "{url}",
    "name": "{p.name}"
  }
}

Algolia specific properties

_geoloc

_geoloc is a special property in Algolia used for doing geo-searching. See Algolia documentation

As stated in the Algolia documentation, the lat and lng properties must be numeric values. This means that you will need to make sure that your Enterspeed schema is mapping these properties as numeric values and not as strings.

JavaScript

Schema with Algolia destination

/** @type {Enterspeed.FullSchema} */
export default {
  triggers: function(context) {
    context.triggers('geodata', ['city']);
  },
  actions: function (sourceEntity, context) {
    context.destination('algolia').options({
      objectId: `city-${sourceEntity.originId}`
    });
  },
  properties: function ({url, properties: p}, context) {
    return {
      url: url,
      name: p.name,
      _geoloc: {
        lat: p.lat,
        lng: p.lng,
      }
    }
  }
}

JSON

Schema with Algolia destination

{
  "triggers": {
        "geodata": ["city"]
    },
  "destinations": [
    {
      "alias": "algolia",
      "options": {
          "objectId": "city-{originId}"
      }
    }
  ],
  "properties": {
    "url": "{url}",
    "name": "{p.name}",
    "_geoloc": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "lat": {
          "type": "number",
          "value": "40.639751",
          "precision": 6
        },
        "lng": {
          "type": "number",
          "value": "-73.778925",
          "precision": 6
        }
      }
    }
  }
}