Laravel Scout Typesense Driver

This package makes it easy to add full text search support to your models with Laravel 7.* to 11.*.

Important

The features from the Scout driver in this repo have been merged upstream into Laravel Scout natively.

So we've temporarily paused development in this repo and plan to instead address any issues or improvements in the native Laravel Scout driver instead.

If there are any Typesense-specific features that would be hard to implement in Laravel Scout natively (since we need to maintain consistency with all the other drivers), then at that point we plan to add those features into this driver and maintain it as a "Scout Extended Driver" of sorts. But it's too early to tell if we'd want to do this, so we're in a holding pattern on this repo for now.

In the meantime, we recommend switching to the native Laravel Scout driver and report any issues in the Laravel Scout repo.

Contents

• Installation
• Usage
• Migrating from devloopsnet/laravel-typesense
• Authors
• License

Installation

The Typesense PHP SDK uses httplug to interface with various PHP HTTP libraries through a single API.

First, install the correct httplug adapter based on your guzzlehttp/guzzle version. For example, if you're on Laravel 8, which includes Guzzle 7, then run this:

composer require php-http/guzzle7-adapter

Then install the driver:

composer require typesense/laravel-scout-typesense-driver

And add the service provider:

// config/app.php
'providers' => [
    // ...
    Typesense\LaravelTypesense\TypesenseServiceProvider::class,
],

Ensure you have Laravel Scout as a provider too otherwise you will get an "unresolvable dependency" error

// config/app.php
'providers' => [
    // ...
    Laravel\Scout\ScoutServiceProvider::class,
],

Add SCOUT_DRIVER=typesense to your .env file

Then you should publish scout.php configuration file to your config directory

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Laravel\Scout\ScoutServiceProvider"

In your config/scout.php add:

'typesense' => [
    'api_key'         => 'abcd',
    'nodes'           => [
      [
        'host'     => 'localhost',
        'port'     => '8108',
        'path'     => '',
        'protocol' => 'http',
      ],
    ],
    'nearest_node'    => [
        'host'     => 'localhost',
        'port'     => '8108',
        'path'     => '',
        'protocol' => 'http',
    ],
    'connection_timeout_seconds'   => 2,
    'healthcheck_interval_seconds' => 30,    
    'num_retries'                  => 3,
    'retry_interval_seconds'       => 1,
  ],

Usage

If you are unfamiliar with Laravel Scout, we suggest reading it's documentation first.

After you have installed scout and the Typesense driver, you need to add the Searchable trait to your models that you want to make searchable. Additionaly, define the fields you want to make searchable by defining the toSearchableArray method on the model and implement TypesenseSearch:

<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Typesense\LaravelTypesense\Interfaces\TypesenseDocument;
use Laravel\Scout\Searchable;

class Todo extends Model implements TypesenseDocument
{
    use Searchable;
    
     /**
     * Get the indexable data array for the model.
     *
     * @return array
     */
    public function toSearchableArray()
    {
        return array_merge(
            $this->toArray(), 
            [
                // Cast id to string and turn created_at into an int32 timestamp
                // in order to maintain compatibility with the Typesense index definition below
                'id' => (string) $this->id,
                'created_at' => $this->created_at->timestamp,
            ]
        );
    }

     /**
     * The Typesense schema to be created.
     *
     * @return array
     */
    public function getCollectionSchema(): array {
        return [
            'name' => $this->searchableAs(),
            'fields' => [
                [
                    'name' => 'id',
                    'type' => 'string',
                ],
                [
                    'name' => 'name',
                    'type' => 'string',
                ],
                [
                    'name' => 'created_at',
                    'type' => 'int64',
                ],
            ],
            'default_sorting_field' => 'created_at',
        ];
    }

     /**
     * The fields to be queried against. See https://typesense.org/docs/0.24.0/api/search.html.
     *
     * @return array
     */
    public function typesenseQueryBy(): array {
        return [
            'name',
        ];
    }    
}

Then, sync the data with the search service like:

php artisan scout:import App\\Models\\Todo

After that you can search your models with:

Todo::search('Test')->get();

Adding via Query

The searchable() method will chunk the results of the query and add the records to your search index. Examples:

$todo = Todo::find(1);
$todo->searchable();

$todos = Todo::where('created_at', '<', now())->get();
$todos->searchable();

Multi Search

You can send multiple search requests in a single HTTP request, using the Multi-Search feature.

$searchRequests = [
    [
      'collection' => 'todo',
      'q' => 'todo'
    ],
    [
      'collection' => 'todo',
      'q' => 'foo'
    ]
];

Todo::search('')->searchMulti($searchRequests)->paginateRaw();

Generate Scoped Search Key

You can generate scoped search API keys that have embedded search parameters in them. This is useful in a few different scenarios:

1. You can index data from multiple users/customers in a single Typesense collection (aka multi-tenancy) and create scoped search keys with embedded filter_by parameters that only allow users access to their own subset of data.
2. You can embed any search parameters (for eg: exclude_fields or limit_hits) to prevent users from being able to modify it client-side.

When you use these scoped search keys in a search API call, the parameters you embedded in them will be automatically applied by Typesense and users will not be able to override them.

<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Laravel\Scout\Searchable;
use Typesense\LaravelTypesense\Concerns\HasScopedApiKey;
use Typesense\LaravelTypesense\Interfaces\TypesenseDocument;

class Todo extends Model implements TypesenseDocument
{
    use Searchable, HasScopedApiKey;
}

Usage

Todo::setScopedApiKey('xyz')->search('todo')->get();

Migrating from devloopsnet/laravel-typesense

• Replace devloopsnet/laravel-typesense in your composer.json requirements with typesense/laravel-scout-typesense-driver
• The Scout driver is now called typesense, instead of typesensesearch. This should be reflected by setting the SCOUT_DRIVER env var to typesense, and changing the config/scout.php config key from typesensesearch to typesense
• Instead of importing Devloops\LaravelTypesense\*, you should import Typesense\LaravelTypesense\*
• Instead of models implementing Devloops\LaravelTypesense\Interfaces\TypesenseSearch, they should implement Typesense\LaravelTypesense\Interfaces\TypesenseDocument

Authors

This package was originally authored by Abdullah Al-Faqeir and his company DevLoops: https://github.com/devloopsnet/laravel-scout-typesense-engine. It has since been adopted into the Typesense Github org.

Other key contributors include:

• hi019
• Philip Manavopoulos

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see the License File for more information.