base-search

Base plugin that adds methods for creating, updating and using search indices.

Install

Install with npm:

$ npm install --save base-search

Usage

var search = require('base-search');

API

.search

Plugin for base applications like generate, assemble, verb, and update to add an instance of sarge as app.search that has methods for creating search indices using indexers.

Params

• config {Object}: Configuration object used to specify default indexer to use.
• returns {Function}: Plugin function passed to app.use methods.

Example

var app = assemble();
app.use(search());
console.log(app.search);

Indexers

Indexers are objects that have collect and index methods that will be executed when collect or index are called on app.search.

The indexer objects may be plain objects or instances created with those methods. See the examples to see what indexers may look like.

Simple object to be used in examples below.

var indexer = {};

.collect

The collect method on an indexer will be passed a file object and a next callback. The collect method should create an object to pass back to next that will be added to the .files collection on the search instance.

If file is a view from assemble, we can collect information about the file that we want to index:

indexer.collect = function(file, next) {
  var obj = {
    key: file.key,
    title: file.data.title,
    category: file.data.category,
    url: file.data.url,
    body: file.content
  };
  // return the object
  next(null, obj);
};

.index

The index method on an indexer will be passed a files object containing all fo the collected files, an options object which is the same as the options passed into the search.index method, and a callback function to call when indexing is complete. The callback function is the same as the one passed into the search.index method so users may choose to return additional information if necessary.

indexer.index = function(files, options, cb) {
  for (var key in files) {
    if (files.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
      console.log(key);
      console.log(files[key]);
      console.log();
    }
  }
  cb();
};

About

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Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.

Please read the contributing guide for advice on opening issues, pull requests, and coding standards.

Building docs

(This project's readme.md is generated by verb, please don't edit the readme directly. Any changes to the readme must be made in the .verb.md readme template.)

To generate the readme, run the following command:

$ npm install -g verbose/verb#dev verb-generate-readme && verb

Running tests

Install dev dependencies:

$ npm install && npm test

Author

Brian Woodward

• github/doowb
• twitter/doowb

License

Copyright © 2017, Brian Woodward. MIT

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