NAME Elastic::Model - A NoSQL document store with full text search for Moose objects using Elasticsearch as a backend. VERSION version 0.28 SYNOPSIS package MyApp; use Elastic::Model; has_namespace 'myapp' => { user => 'MyApp::User', post => 'MyApp::Post' }; has_typemap 'MyApp::TypeMap'; # Setup custom analyzers has_filter 'edge_ngrams' => ( type => 'edge_ngram', min_gram => 2, max_gram => 10 ); has_analyzer 'edge_ngrams' => ( tokenizer => 'standard', filter => [ 'standard', 'lowercase', 'edge_ngrams' ] ); no Elastic::Model; DESCRIPTION Elastic::Model is a framework to store your Moose objects, which uses Elasticsearch as a NoSQL document store and flexible search engine. It is designed to make it easy to start using Elasticsearch with minimal extra code, but allows you full access to the rich feature set available in Elasticsearch as soon as you are ready to use it. INTRODUCTION TO Elastic::Model If you are not familiar with Elastic::Model, you should start by reading Elastic::Manual::Intro. The rest of the documentation on this page explains how to use the Elastic::Model module itself. IMPORTANT This version of Elastic::Model has been updated to work with Search::Elasticsearch::Compat, a compatibility layer over the new official Elasticsearch Perl client: Search::Elasticsearch. In the near future, I will be releasing a version of Elastic::Model that works with Elasticsearch directly, without need for the compatibility layer. In the meantime, you should be able to continue using Elastic::Model as normal by simply changing: use ElasticSearch; my $es = ElasticSearch->new(...); to: use Search::Elasticsearch::Compat; my $es = Search::Elasticsearch::Compat->new(...); USING ELASTIC::MODEL Your application needs a "model" class to handle the relationship between your object classes and the Elasticsearch cluster. Your model class is most easily defined as follows: package MyApp; use Elastic::Model; has_namespace 'myapp' => { user => 'MyApp::User', post => 'MyApp::Post' }; no Elastic::Model; This applies Elastic::Model::Role::Model to your "MyApp" class, Elastic::Model::Meta::Class::Model to "MyApp"'s metaclass and exports functions which help you to configure your model. Your model must define at least one namespace, which tells Elastic::Model which type (like a table in a DB) should be handled by which of your classes. So the above declaration says: *"For all indices which belong to namespace "myapp", objects of class "MyApp::User" will be stored under the type "user" in Elasticsearch."* Custom TypeMap Elastic::Model uses a TypeMap to figure out how to inflate and deflate your objects, and how to configure them in Elasticsearch. You can specify your own TypeMap using: has_typemap 'MyApp::TypeMap'; See Elastic::Model::TypeMap::Base for instructions on how to define your own type-map classes. Custom unique key index If you have attributes whose values are unique, then you can customize the index where these unique values are stored. has_unique_index 'myapp_unique'; The default value is "unique_key". Custom analyzers Analysis is the process of converting full text into "terms" or "tokens" and is one of the things that gives full text search its power. When storing text in the Elasticsearch index, the text is first analyzed into terms/tokens. Then, when searching, search keywords go through the same analysis process to produce the terms/tokens which are then searched for in the index. Choosing the right analyzer for each field gives you enormous control over how your data can be queried. There are a large number of built-in analyzers available, but frequently you will want to define custom analyzers, which consist of: * zero or more character filters * a tokenizer * zero or more token filters Elastic::Model provides sugar to make it easy to specify custom analyzers: has_char_filter Character filters can change the text before it gets tokenized, for instance: has_char_filter 'my_mapping' => ( type => 'mapping', mappings => ['ph=>f','qu=>q'] ); See "Default character filters" in Elastic::Model::Meta::Class::Model for a list of the built-in character filters. has_tokenizer A tokenizer breaks up the text into individual tokens or terms. For instance, the "pattern" tokenizer could be used to split text using a regex: has_tokenizer 'my_word_tokenizer' => ( type => 'pattern', pattern => '\W+', # splits on non-word chars ); See "Default tokenizers" in Elastic::Model::Meta::Class::Model for a list of the built-in tokenizers. has_filter Any terms/tokens produced by the "has_tokenizer" can the be passed through multiple token filters. For instance, each term could be broken down into "edge ngrams" (eg 'foo' => 'f','fo','foo') for partial matching. has_filter 'my_ngrams' => ( type => 'edge_ngram', min_gram => 1, max_gram => 10, ); See "Default token filters" in Elastic::Model::Meta::Class::Model for a list of the built-in character token filters. has_analyzer Custom analyzers can be defined by combining character filters, a tokenizer and token filters, some of which could be built-in, and some defined by the keywords above. For instance: has_analyzer 'partial_word_analyzer' => ( type => 'custom', char_filter => ['my_mapping'], tokenizer => ['my_word_tokenizer'], filter => ['lowercase','stop','my_ngrams'] ); See "Default analyzers" in Elastic::Model::Meta::Class::Model for a list of the built-in analyzers. Overriding Core Classes If you would like to override any of the core classes used by Elastic::Model, then you can do so as follows: override_classes ( domain => 'MyApp::Domain', store => 'MyApp::Store' ); The defaults are: * "namespace" "-----------" Elastic::Model::Namespace * "domain" "--------------" Elastic::Model::Domain * "store" "---------------" Elastic::Model::Store * "view" "----------------" Elastic::Model::View * "scope" "---------------" Elastic::Model::Scope * "results" "-------------" Elastic::Model::Results * "cached_results" "------" Elastic::Model::Results::Cached * "scrolled_results" "----" Elastic::Model::Results::Scrolled * "result" "--------------" Elastic::Model::Result * "bulk" "----------------" Elastic::Model::Bulk SEE ALSO * Elastic::Model::Role::Model * Elastic::Manual * Elastic::Doc AUTHOR Clinton Gormley COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Clinton Gormley. 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