Searching Multiple Terms with ElasticSearch + Tire

Question

Using Tire with Mongoid, I'm having trouble figuring out how to structure a query for finding events with ElasticSearch. In particular, I'm trying to find events that users are watching in addition to events with performers the user follows:

# app/models/event.rb
class Event
  include Mongoid::Document
  include Tire::Model::Search
  include Tire::Model::Callbacks

  field :name, type: String

  has_and_belongs_to_many :performers
  has_many :watchers, class_name: 'User'

  mapping do
    indexes :name
    indexes :watcher_ids, type: 'string', index: :not_analyzed
    indexes :performer_ids, type: 'string', index: :not_analyzed
  end
end

The following query works only for either watchers or performers.

Tire.search 'events' do
  query do
    string params[:query]
    # Only one of these will work at a time:
    terms :performer_ids, current_user.followed_performers.collect(&:id).map(&:to_s)
    terms :watcher_ids, [current_user.id.to_s]
  end
end

• small edit because I typed my example wrong.

Here's a solution that seems to be "working"... but feels wrong

Tire.search('events') do
  query do
    boolean do
      should { string params[:query] }
      should { string "performer_ids:#{current_user.followed_performers.collect(&:id).map(&:to_s).join(',')}" }
      should { string "watcher_ids:#{current_user.id.to_s}" }
    end
  end
end

Answer 1

You're on a right path, but as advised by Russ Smith, you need to use a filter DSL.

Now, if you just repeatedly call filter , you'll perform a union: AND . If you want to return either events user is watching or by performers the user follows, you have to use a or filter.

Also, for best performance, use the filtered query, as opposed to the top level filter -- in the former case, filters run first, slicing your corpus and perform queries only on this subset.

The code should look like this:

Tire.search 'events' do
  query do
    filtered do
      query do
        string params[:query]
      end
      filter :or, terms: { organization_ids: current_user.followed_performers.collect(&:id).map(&:to_s) },
                  terms: { watcher_ids:      [current_user.id.to_s] }
    end
  end
end

See the integration tests for more examples:

• https://github.com/karmi/tire/blob/master/test/integration/filters_test.rb
• https://github.com/karmi/tire/blob/master/test/integration/filtered_queries_test.rb

Answer 2

I think what you are looking for is a filter. This is not fully tested code, but it might lead you in the right direction.

class Event
  include Mongoid::Document
  include Tire::Model::Search
  include Tire::Model::Callbacks

  field :name, type: String

  has_and_belongs_to_many :performers
  has_many :watchers, class_name: 'User'

  mapping do
    indexes :name
    indexes :watcher_ids, type: 'integer', index: :not_analyzed
    indexes :performer_ids, type: 'integer', index: :not_analyzed
  end
end

Tire.search('events') do
  query do
    string 'my event'
  end

  filter :in, :organization_ids, [1,2,3]
  filter :in, :watcher_ids, [1]
end