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This package provides a basic implementation of the Apache Solr search engine within Laravel Scout.

Installation

composer require shopapps/scout-solr-engine

config

This package provides a config file that can be modified using .env variables.
You can initialize your own config file with:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Scout\Solr\ScoutSolrServiceProvider"

scout:index

By default, Solr doesn't allow indexes (cores) to be created without providing the proper folders and files on the file system first. However, if a default config set is set up in the Solr instance this becomes possible through the API.
The scout:index command will only work if the Solr instance is properly configured and the config files has the corresponding name for the config set folder. For more information, see https://solr.apache.org/guide/8_9/config-sets.html#config-sets

To get the _default configset onto your server try the following (adjusting the command to match your solr version/location:

sudo cp -r /opt/solr-9.2.1/server/solr/configsets /var/solr/data
sudo chown -R solr:solr /var/solr/data/configsets

then checking that folder you should see something like:

sudo ls -lah /var/solr/data/configsets/

total 16K
drwxr-xr-x  4 solr solr 4.0K Jul 13 07:03 .
drwxr-x--- 13 solr solr 4.0K Jul 13 07:03 ..
drwxr-xr-x  3 solr solr 4.0K Jul 13 07:03 _default
drwxr-xr-x  3 solr solr 4.0K Jul 13 07:03 sample_techproducts_configs

most likely you can safely delete the sample_techproducts_configs folder from there unless you are using it :-)

Cores (indexes)

Within the config file a core (index) is not provided. The engine will determine which core to connect to using the searchableAs() method on the model.

Alternatively, if a specific model is on a different Solr instance, another configuration can be provided for this model. It's important for the configuration key to match the searchableAs() of the model.

When in Cloud mode i could not get this to work fully, so instead you could try:

Step 1: Create a collection in solr via admin panel.

http://127.0.0.1:8983/solr/#/~collections

choose add collection and configure it across your shards and replicas ( for demo mode use shards: 2 and replicas: 2)

Step 2: Setup your schema in the Model

make sure your model is configured to use the correct Searchable trait

<?php

namespace App\Models\User;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Cache;
use Illuminate\Support\Str;

use Scout\Solr\Traits\Searchable; // <--- THIS IS IMPORTANT


class User extends Model
{
    use HasFactory;
    use Searchable;

configure the searchable_fields property on your model, to use the schema you want to create in Solr.

protected $searchable_fields = [
        'id'            => ['type' => 'string', 'indexed' => true, 'stored' => true],
        'role_id'       => ['type' => 'plong', 'indexed' => true, 'stored' => true],
        'name'          => ['type' => 'string', 'indexed' => true, 'stored' => true],
        'description'   => ['type' => 'text_general', 'indexed' => true, 'stored' => true],
        'is_active'     => ['type' => 'boolean', 'indexed' => true, 'stored' => true],
        'created_at'    => ['type' => 'pdate', 'indexed' => true, 'stored' => true],
        'updated_at'    => ['type' => 'pdate', 'indexed' => true, 'stored' => true],
    ];

Step 3: Build the schema

$model = new \App\Models\User();
$model->buildSolrSchema();

this will log any issues to the laravel log file

Solarium

This package uses solarium/solarium to handle requests to the solr instance. This app is meant to be a simple implementation of the laravel/scout engine. For complex queries to the solr instance I would recommend initializing your own Solarium client and use that package. Visit https://solarium.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ to view the documentation of the solarium package.

For convenience, any unknown methods used on the engine will be forwarded to the solarium client.

$model = new \App\Models\SearchableModel();

/** @var \Scout\Solr\Engines\SolrEngine $engine */
$engine = app(\Laravel\Scout\EngineManager::class)->engine();
$select = $engine->setCore($model)->createSelect();
$select->setQuery('*:*');
$result = $engine->select($select, $engine->getEndpointFromConfig($model->searchableAs())); // getEndpointFromConfig() is only necessary when your model does not use the default solr instance.

Usage

not the best example but you get the idea

$res = Product::search()
  ->where('owner', 1021)
  ->paginate();

or...

$res = Product::search('description: "red" AND name: "car"')
  ->where('owner', 1021)
  ->paginate();

Events

The Solr Engine dispatches several events allowing you to hook into specific points in the engine.

Credits

This is a complete hash-up of lots of other great developers work. I needed to get something working for a project but most packages were out of date for laravel 10, scout 10 and solr 9 If you spot your code in here, please accept my appology and let me know and i'll add you to the list:

• https://github.com/Klaasie/laravel-scout-solr-engine
• https://github.com/pxslip/laravel-scout-solr
• https://github.com/grey-dev-0/laravel-scout-solr
• https://gitlab.bertbalcaen.info/rekall/laravel-scout-solr