Extract query from instant-meilisearch

[joepio]

Hi there! Thanks for creating and maintaining this :)

I was trying to build an export feature for my search UI, where users should be able to download all the results that they are looking at (+ the following pages included). I thought the way I could achieve this, is to extract the current Query from somewhere, and then do that search manually. That way, I can handle a larger amount of responses.

But how do I access this search query?

I can see that instantMeiliSearch creates a meilisearch client instance and calls .search at some point.

I want to call that .search manually, using a Query built from the current UI state. I'm not quite sure how to do this. I could just fetch the /search endpoint, but I still want to use my currently selected facets / values.

Some API suggestions:

• instantMeiliSearch returns a currentQuery object, which represents the JSON body sent to the server for a search.
• useCurrentQuery hook that does something similar?

I'm using:

    "@meilisearch/instant-meilisearch": "^0.10.1",
    "meilisearch": "^0.29.1",
    "instantsearch.js": "^4.49.1",
    "react-instantsearch-hooks-web": "^6.38.0",

[niklasfjeldberg]

Did you find this out? I am also trying to manually use .search( ), but I am unable to get facets to work. This is how I used the search, which does work.

const searchClient = instantMeiliSearch(
  config.meilisearchClient.hostUrl, // Host
  config.meilisearchClient.searchApiKey, // API key
  {
    placeholderSearch: true, // default: true.
    primaryKey: 'id' // default: undefined
  }
);

searchClient.search([{
    indexName: indexName.value,
    params: {
      // facets: ['*'],
      query: reSearchQuery.value,
      hitsPerPage: 6,
      filter: getFilters(),
      page: rePageQuery.value - 1
    }
  }])

[joepio]

@niklasfjeldberg sorry, haven't got this working yet!