I'm currently creating a research engine for my app.
Until now, I used Publish composite + iron router : The user could had filters to search for some specific set of users.
Now, I want him to be able to look for some keywords too. For that I downloaded and tested the great SearchSource package.
The problem is that the SearchSource server side definition only seems to allow to return one cursor.
How could I combine the two logics ? Even if it's tricky, please, share.
Of course I could make an autorunned subscription where I look for every users loaded on the client and then subscribe to the additionnal documents, but it is not really the most performant and beautifull thing to do.
Some data :
Here is my current Publish Composite for filters :
Meteor.publishComposite("findTalkers", function(page, langs){
//console.log("Find Talkers");
//console.log("page : " + page);
//console.log("langs : " + langs);
if (langs.length)
{
return ({
find: function()
{
if (langs && langs.length)
{
var test = {$in: langs};
preSelectedUsers = [],
selector = {
_id: {$ne: this.userId},
"profile.completed": true,
"profile.firstName": {$exists: true},
"profile.languages.native": {$exists: false},
"profile.languages.lang": test
};
Counts.publish(this, "nbUsers", Meteor.users.find(selector, {
fields: {_id: 1}
}), {noReady: false, nonReactive: true});
if (page > 1)
{
preSelectedUsers = Meteor.users.find(selector, {
sort: {'profile.talkname': 1},
limit: 25,
skip: (25 * (page || 1)),
fields: {_id: 1}
}).fetch();
var i = -1;
while (preSelectedUsers[++i])
preSelectedUsers[i] = preSelectedUsers[i]._id;
}
if (page > 1)
selector._id = {$in: preSelectedUsers};
return Meteor.users.find(selector, {
fields: userFields,
sort: {'profile.talkname': 1},
limit: 25
});
}
},
children: [
{
// Finding user's profile picture if it is not url
find: function(user)
{
if (user && user.profile && user.profile.avatar.type != "url")
return Images.find({_id: user.profile.avatar.data}, {sort: {uploadedAt: -1}, limit: 1});
}
}
]
});
}
else
{
return ({
find: function()
{
return Meteor.users.find({_id: "flush"});
}
});
}
});
Here is my research with SearchSource :
Client :
var searchOptions = {
keepHistory: 1000 * 60 * 5,
localSearch: true
},
SearchSources = {
talkersSearch: new SearchSource('users', ['profile.talkname'], searchOptions)
};
Router.map(function(){
this.route('talkers/:page?',
{
template: "talkers",
onBeforeAction: function(pause){
(Meteor.user() && Meteor.user().profile.completed)
? this.next()
: this.render('/profile');
},
waitOn: function(){
var filters = MatesFilter.find().fetch(),
i = -1;
while (filters[++i])
filters[i] = filters[i].value;
if (filters.length)
{
return Meteor.subscribe("findTalkers", (this.params.page || 1), filters, function(){
Session.set('numberuser', Counts.get("nbUsers"));
});
}
return Meteor.subscribe('myself');
}
});
}
Template.talkers.helpers({
getPackages: function() {
return SearchSources.talkersSearch.getData({
transform: function(matchText, regExp) {
return matchText.replace(regExp, "<b>$&</b>")
},
sort: {isoScore: -1}
});
}
}
Template.talkers.events({
"keyup #header-search": _.throttle(function(e) {
Session.set("matesSearch", $(e.target).val().trim());
console.log("Searching for : " + text);
SearchSources.talkersSearch.search(Session.get("matesSearch"), {
page: (this.params.page || 1),
filters: filters
});
}, 200)
}
SERVER :
SearchSource.defineSource('users', function(searchText, options) {
var options = {sort: {"profile.talkname": -1}, limit: 25};
if(searchText)
{
var regExp = buildRegExp(searchText);
selector = { $or: [
{ "profile.talkname": regExp },
{ "profile.bio": regExp }
] };
return Meteor.users.find(selector, options).fetch();
}
return ;
});
All this Gives me two sources from which I can get users. I'd want to get a mean to merge the two ides (a composition of publication INSIDE the search, for example).
Thanks you.