Nested objects/relations

[dethi]

No description provided.

[xiaolin]

+1

[brendan-rius]

+1

[brendan-rius]

Any ETA on this one?

[dethi]

Same as the 2.0.0 milestone.

[RML-Admin]

What is the due date for 2.0.0?

[oliver-zhou]

Is there a way to handle nested objects yet?

[PLNech]

@xiaolin @brendan-rius @adavanisanti @oliver-zhou: Hi there and sorry for the late reply.

We don't have a current date for the 2.0.0 milestone as @dethi left the company. However, you can index relations by proxying an attribute in the index configuration:

Models

class Account(models.Model):
    username = models.CharField(max_length=40)
    service = models.CharField(max_length=40)

class Contact(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=40)
    email = models.EmailField(max_length=60)
    //...
    accounts = models.ManyToManyField(Account)

    def account_names(self):
        return [str(account) for account in self.accounts.all()]

    def account_ids(self):
        return [account.id for account in self.accounts.all()]

Index

from algoliasearch_django import AlgoliaIndex


class ContactIndex(AlgoliaIndex):
    fields = ('name', 'email', 'company', 'address', 'city', 'county',
              'state', 'zip_code', 'phone', 'fax', 'web', 'followers', 'account_names', 'account_ids')

    settings = {
        'searchableAttributes': ['name', 'email', 'company', 'city', 'county', 'account_names',
        }

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• With this configuration, you can search for a Contact using its Account names:

• You can use the associated account_ids at search-time to fetch more data from your model (you should only proxy the fields relevant for search to keep your records' size as small as possible)