An unofficial Meilisearch client based on Finch HTTP client wrapped by Tesla.

Installation

The package can be installed by adding meilisearch_ex to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:finch, "~> 0.14.0"},
    {:meilisearch_ex, "~> 1.0.1"}
  ]
end

Documentation can be found at https://hexdocs.pm/meilisearch_ex.

Usage

You can create a client when you needs it.

# Start finch with your app
Finch.start_link(name: :search_finch)

# Create a Meilisearch client whenever and wherever you need it.
[endpoint: "https://search.mydomain.com", key: "replace_me", finch: :search_finch]
|> Meilisearch.Client.new()
|> Meilisearch.Health.get()

# %Meilisearch.Health{status: "available"}

But you can also start a client alongside your application to access it whenever you need it.

Finch.start_link(name: :search_finch)
Meilisearch.start_link(:main, [
  endpoint: "https://search.mydomain.com",
  key: "replace_me",
  finch: :search_finch
])

:main
|> Meilisearch.client()
|> Meilisearch.Health.get()

# %Meilisearch.Health{status: "available"}

Within a Phoenix app you would do like this:

defmodule MyApp.Application do
  # ...

  @impl true
  def start(_type, _args) do
    children = [
      # ...
      {Finch, name: :search_finch},
      {Meilisearch, name: :search_admin, endpoint: "https://search.mydomain.com", key: "key_admin", finch: :search_finch},
      {Meilisearch, name: :search_public, endpoint: "https://search.mydomain.com", key: "key_public", finch: :search_finch}
    ]

    # ...
  end

  # ...
end

defmodule MyApp.MyContext do
  def create_search_index() do
    :search_admin
    |> Meilisearch.client()
    |> Meilisearch.Index.create(%{uid: "items", primaryKey: "id"})
  end

  def add_documents_to_search_index(documents) do
    :search_admin
    |> Meilisearch.client()
    |> Meilisearch.Document.create_or_replace("items", documents)
  end

  def search_document(query) do
    :search_public
    |> Meilisearch.client()
    |> Meilisearch.Search.search("items", %{q: query})
  end
end

Compatibility

For now, we only support version 1.0.x of Meilisearch.

meilisearch	meilisearch-ex
1.0.x	1.0