FilterBy on search

[Sivli-Embir]

@matteodem still loving this package. I am now using this in another app and I need a filter by, ideally on the server for security reasons. I have something close to the following:

//Groups 
{
  users: [userIds]
}
//Items
{
 name: 'name'
 group: groupId
}

Assuming there is not an existing/better way to do this. I would like to do:

EasySearch.createSearchIndex('items', {
  'collection'    : Items,
  'field'         : ['name']
 //filter by magic here? That limits by groups the user has access to
  }
});
//OR (likely easier)
EasySearch.search('items', 'someName', filterBy: 'groupId', function (err, data) {
});
//with some kind of server-side security check

[Sivli-Embir]

Worth notting that I will likely be using ether elastic-search or mongo-db.

[matteodem]

Thank you! You can enhance your search with a filter by providing a query property, as seen here https://github.com/matteodem/meteor-easy-search#createsearchindexname-options.

Will you use elastic search OR mongo-db? With mongo-db it expects a selector object (http://docs.meteor.com/#selectors) and with elastic search a query object (http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-queries.html)

[Sivli-Embir]

Oh, OH! Yes thats what I wanted. I saw that before but I did not make the link up with EasySearch.changeProperty.

Ok follow up, is there a way to limit the result fields? I only need name and _id from my documents. This could pull down MBs of data if left as is. I am searching over literal documents.

[Sivli-Embir]

Ach still having a problem with this. Is there any way to access properties set by EasySearch.changeProperty in the permission argument from EasySearch.createSearchIndex? I will also need the userId.

[matteodem]

It's actually missing for both of them, but it would be as easy as adding a fields property where you can define those needed (like here http://docs.meteor.com/#find, see "fields"). I'll create an enhancement ticket for it.

Are you changing properties in our permission argument? Can you please create a new github ticket with a code example in there? I'll also be probably adding some new functions for filter / faceting management + a section in the README