feat(form): add support for ChoiceType

[Guikingone]

Description
Hi everyone 👋🏻

Is there any roadmap for a support of "search" in a form type?

What I mean by that is being able to create a custom form type that display a ChoiceType (or even in the SearchType) which use the Engine to display choices?

Thanks again for the feedback 🙂

Basic example

Small example outside of this bundle: https://github.com/Guikingone/MeiliSearchBundle/blob/master/src/Form/Type/MeiliSearchChoiceType.php

[curquiza]

Hello @Guikingone!
Nothing is planned for the moment, so every suggestion is appreciated 🙂

I'm not a Symfony user, and no one is at Meili for the moment, so can you describe how the usage would change compared to the current one we have (cf our wiki)? Or is it just a feature addition?
How can we use it? 🙂

[Guikingone]

Hi @curquiza 👋🏻

so can you describe how the usage would change compared to the current one we have (cf our wiki)? Or is it just a feature addition?

It's a feature addition

Advantages:

• Use indexes and documents inside a form to display choices and speed search experience (when using SearchType)
• Being able to create form that use MS without pain as a default type handle the configuration and results.
• Allow to create a complete "search experience" without pain and a "deep" Symfony integration

Disadvantages:

• Inject the SearchService into a type (which lead to a relation between the search experience and the Symfony architecture)
• The error handling must be done in the type, so if MS fails, the form will too.

There might be some edge issues that I don't have in mind but IMHO, the feature could be interesting 🙂

[curquiza]

As I'm not a Symfony user I cannot tell if it's worth it to add it, I mean if the pros neutralize the cons! 🙂

Maybe @codedge you have an opinion on it? 😇

Also, if someone around here is from the PHP/Symfony community and read this issue, feel free to comment and give your opinion.

[94noni]

Hi, I recently began to use meilisearch (for now directly with the php lib) and for POC/basic usage
I plan to integrate it inside a symfony project and thus checked this lib

I think this symfony lib could indeed leverage this kind of code but not activated by default, and let ppl activate it if needed

Also, It could be great to have some others symfony components like messenger for async update, data collector to see the underlying MS requests, and maybe some views (twig/ux) logic to ease the frontend integration

Those are just ideas on the go :)
Cheers!

[Guikingone]

@94noni I fully agree for both Messenger support and DataCollector support 🚀

[codedge]

@Guikingone Anything that speaks against using your custom form type https://github.com/Guikingone/MeiliSearchBundle/blob/master/src/Form/Type/MeiliSearchChoiceType.php from being used here? I mean could you create a PR?

[Guikingone]

Hi @codedge 👋🏻

For now, I prefer to talk about this idea and see if the bundle can benefit from it, If there's a consensus about the feature, I could easily create the PR to see if it fit technically 🙂

[curquiza]

If you, as symfony users, think it's a good idea, let's start this! :)