I'm working on a Laravel project and I'm using https://laravel.com/docs/5.3/scout with ElasticSearch on a model Offer.
I already have some offers in my database, so I just run the command
`php artisan scout:import "App\Models\Offer"`
for generate the index for use my datas with ElasticSearch.
After that it's ok, I can search in my offers with, for example :
`$offers = Offer::search($request->keywords)->get();`
Now I have a function for create other offers in my database, and I dont know how can I refresh the index for use these new datas ?
In the documentation https://laravel.com/docs/5.3/scout#adding-records, I can read
all you need to do is save a model instance and it will automatically be added to your search index
I tried this and no, when I save() a new Offer, I can't find it in my index.
I tried to re run the command php artisan scout:import "App\Models\Offer" after add anew OFfer, but it's the same, I can't find it in my index.
Did I miss something ? Any ideas ?
Sorry for a late response on this but I ran into this issue myself when I attempted to use Scout. Everything went fine until I realized that the project's data would scale at a rate that went far beyond what scout could handle. In this case, however you can use the push() method instead of save(). I'm not sure why this isn't documented at all and it's rather frustrating but there's an answer at least.
So use:
->push()
instead of:
->save()
to update your indexes.
If that does not work for your specific version there is another way you can do it but it is "slightly" redundant. It involves a mix of using the queue system with the Artisan system and a command. In this you:
Create a queue/job php artisan make:job JobNameHere (As of Laravel 5.2 - 5.4)
Add use Artisan; to the top of that newly created Job Class so you can pull in the Artisan's functionality
In the handle of that Job Class add
class JobNameHere implements ShouldQueue {
...
...
public function handle() {
Artisan::call('scout:import', ['name' => "App\YourModelNameHere"]);
}
}
Add a dispatch call to that job class right after your DB push() process is called.
Example:
class YourController extends Controller {
public function yourUpdateMethod(Request $request) {
//Some code you wrote
//Some more code you wrote
$update_obj->push( $array_to_update_obj);
dispatch(new JobNameHere());
}
}
Test your index by searching on it
If all went well then you should no longer get any errors. Please leave a comment and let me know how it went... provided you're still having this issue.
I would also like to mention that Laravel Scout does not support ElasticSearch anymore as of August of 2016 (I believe). No one really knows why the support was removed but there are a few tutorials out there to help you get Laravel and Elastic search working together again.
I will also note, based on my research, that if your project is small then you should be fine to use Scout and not need to use ElasticSearch. If your project is going to get huge, then you're probably better off finding a package that supports and well documents how handle Laravel's relationships between models. Elastic search is capable of accomplishing this but there are tons of docs that make figuring it out difficult. Here are some semi-decent tutorials to help get you going down the right path.
https://tirdeamihai.com/blog/laravel-and-elasticsearch
https://laravel-news.com/laravel-and-elasticsearch
Plastic is a package that I would currently recommend as it's being actively worked on. Elasticquent hasn't been touched or updated since last year in June.
https://github.com/sleimanx2/plastic#1---create-a-new-index
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I'm building a system to manage some articles for my company using Laravel and Laravel Scout with Algolia as the search backend.
One of the requirements states that whenever something in an article is changed, a backup is kept so we can prove that a certain information was displayed at a specific time.
I've implemented that by cloning the existing article with all its relationships before updating it. Here is the method on the Article model:
public function clone(array $relations = null, array $except = null) {
if($relations) {
$this->load($relations);
}
$replica = $this->replicate($except);
$replica->save();
$syncRelations = collect($this->relations)->only($relations);
foreach($syncRelations as $relation => $models) {
$replica->{$relation}()->sync($models);
}
return $replica;
}
The problem is the $replica->save() line. I need to save the model first, in order for it to have an ID when syncing the relationships.
But: The only thing preventing scout from indexing the model is if the model has its archived_at field set to any non-null value. But since this is a clone of the original model, this field is set to null as expected, and is only changed after the cloning procedure is done.
The problem: Scout is syncing the cloned model to Algolia, so I have duplicates there. I know how to solve this, by wrapping the clone call into the withoutSyncingToSearch (https://laravel.com/docs/5.6/scout#pausing-indexing) callback.
But since this is rather important and the bug is already out there, I want to have a unit test backing me up that it was indeed not synced to Algolia.
I don't have any idea how to test this though and searching for a way to test Scout only leads to answers that tell me not to test Scout, but rather that my model can be indexed etc.
The question: How do I create a Unittest that proves that the cloned model wasn't synced to Algolia?
At the moment I'm thinking about creating a custom Scout driver for testing, but it seems to be a total overkill for testing one single function.
I am updating my model instance or inserting a new one like this:
$model = Model::updateOrCreate([id' => $request['id']],
$model_to_update_array);
I want to execute some code only when existing model instance ('tourist') was updated (and NOT when a new one was created or nothing changes).
I've read https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/eloquent#events about Eloquent events and it seems to me that I need to use updated or updating event. As I understand these events are 'built-in' in Laravel, so I don't have to use a lot of stuff from here: https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/events
I haven't found a tutorial showing how to implement Eloquent events. Since I am new to events conception at all, it's hard for me to understand how to use them. Can anyone drop a link to a good tutorial about Eloquent events (not events in general, but Eloqeunt events in particular) or maybe it can be shortly explained here?
Thank you in advance!
The easiest way to add Eloquent event for a particular model is to overwrite its boot() method:
protected static function boot()
{
parent::boot();
static::updating(function ($model) {
});
}
When you put this in your model the anonymous function will run every time when the model is being updated. Please note that there is a difference between calling static::updating() and static::updated() depending on when you want to execute your code.
#TheFallen gave a great answer to this problem in another thread on StackOverflow, please read if you are interested in thoroughly explained solution:
Laravel Eloquent Events - implement to save model if Updated
I need to set up a live demo of a Symfony app.
How can I make everything read-only? The users should be able to try all the features but not make any persistent change visible to others.
I could remove the INSERT and UPDATE privileges to the mysql user, but that would be an ugly error 500 when they try to save something...
Quick and dirty way to make your entire app Read-Only.
AppBundle/EventSubscriber/EntitySubscriber.php
namespace AppBundle\EventSubscriber;
use Doctrine\Common\EventSubscriber;
use Doctrine\ORM\Event\PreFlushEventArgs;
class EntitySubscriber implements EventSubscriber
{
public function getSubscribedEvents()
{
return [
'preFlush'
];
}
public function preFlush(PreFlushEventArgs $args)
{
$entityManager = $args->getEntityManager();
$entityManager->clear();
}
}
services.yml
app.entity_subscriber:
class: AppBundle\EventSubscriber\EntitySubscriber
tags:
- { name: doctrine.event_subscriber, connection: default }
I suppose that you've already made it. But if not:
Use dummy database. Copy it from original DB. Let them play. Drop it when you don't need it.
If you have no access to database creation and drop you can still do the trick. Just add temporary prefixes to table names in Doctrine entities. No need to rewrite the entire app, just a few lines. Run migrations to create new tables. Drop them whenever you want later.
Use virtual machine. Make a snapshot before the show. Roll back to the saved snapshot after the show.
These are more or less easy ways and they are platform independent.
Changing this based on the Symfony app level might have one of two disadvantages. You either do not save anything and thus your demo is not working so nice to show it to the customer. Or you have to do to much manipulations with the code and throw this huge work away right after the show.
Maybe you can use Session to do that or Memcache that you can implement in Symfony (Some examples are available on the web). Hope this will help.
I was trying to get this working in a typical belongsTo relation. However it keeps saying that the column is not set in the model, even if looking in the actual database it is there.
I have tried to look at the source code as well as try many approaches to bypass this issue, however nothing seems to do anything.
public function modifiedBy()
{
return $this->belongsTo('\Modules\Users\Model\User', 'modified_by');
}
public function createdBy()
{
return $this->belongsTo('\Modules\Users\Model\User', 'created_by');
}
This is the code inside the model, I use PSR-0 to define modules, better splitting up logic (no issues with that) but using this it would give an error of
Undefined property: \Modules\Module\Model\CurrentModel::$modified_by
This is coming from a seed to push some initial info into the database.
$user = Sentinel::findById(1);
$model = new CurrentModel;
$model->modifiedBy()->associate($user);
$model->save();
This is basically how it goes together, I have tried for some time to figure out what is wrong but I am calling blanks. Any ideas?
Found out a solution. Not a fix though but I would consider this an issue with laravel so I may look into adding it as a bug report (although this could be fixed in laravel 5?).
Basically with modified_by I need to define the column it is using and not let laravel automatically generate it (in order to do this "cleanly"). However the "bug" (only calling it a bug as currently I can only see this as an unintended problem) makes it so you cannot define the column it will be using, you have to let laravel decide it for you.
So I changed the functions to look like this:
public function modifiedby()
{
return $this->belongsTo('\Modules\Users\Model\User');
}
This makes laravel assume the column is modifiedby_id, but by changing my migrations to reflect that there was no more error.
I'm trying to find all users w/ a specific permissions list in Sentry with laravel. The problem is that Sentry::findAllUsersWithAccess() returns an array().
as stated in their github repository i pinpointed their code to be
public function findAllWithAccess($permissions)
{
return array_filter($this->findAll(), function($user) use ($permissions)
{
return $user->hasAccess($permissions);
});
}
right now, it gets all users and filter it out with users with permission list. the big problem would be when I as a developer would get the set of users, it'll show ALL users, i'm developing an app which may hold thousands of users and i only need to get users with sepcific permission lists.
With regards to that would love to use one with a ->paginate() capability.
Any thoughts how to get it without getting all the users.
Why dont you override the findAllWithAccess() method and write your own implementation, which uses mysql where instead of array_filter().
I dont know your project structure and the underlying db schema, so all i can give you atm is the link to the eloquent documentation Querying Relations (whereHas).
In case you dont know where to start: its always a good idea to look at the ServiceProvider (SentryServiceProvider, where the UserProvider, which holds the findAllWidthAccess() method, is registered). Override the registerUserProvider method and return your own implementation of the UserProvider (with the edited findAllWithAccess() method).
Hope that will point you in the right direction.
In Laravel you can do pagination manually on arrays:
$paginator = Paginator::make($items, $totalItems, $perPage);
Check the docs: http://laravel.com/docs/pagination