Crate meilisearch_sdk

🔧 Installation

To use meilisearch-sdk, add this to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
meilisearch-sdk = "0.3.0"

The following optional dependencies may also be useful:

tokio = { version = "0.2", features = ["macros"] }
serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }

Since this crate is async, you have to run your program in the tokio runtime. When targetting Wasm, the browser will replace tokio.

Using this crate is possible without serde, but a lot of features require serde.

Run a MeiliSearch Instance

This crate requires a MeiliSearch server to run.

There are many easy ways to download and run a MeiliSearch instance.

For example, if you use Docker:

$ docker pull getmeili/meilisearch:latest # Fetch the latest version of MeiliSearch image from Docker Hub
$ docker run -it --rm -p 7700:7700 getmeili/meilisearch:latest ./meilisearch --master-key=masterKey

NB: you can also download MeiliSearch from Homebrew or APT.

🚀 Getting Started

use meilisearch_sdk::{document::*, client::*, search::*};
use serde::{Serialize, Deserialize};

#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Debug)]
struct Book {
    book_id: usize,
    title: String,
}

// That trait is required to make a struct usable by an index
impl Document for Book {
    type UIDType = usize;

    fn get_uid(&self) -> &Self::UIDType {
        &self.book_id
    }
}

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() {
    // Create a client (without sending any request so that can't fail)
    let client = Client::new("http://localhost:7700", "masterKey");

    // Get the index called "books"
    let books = client.get_or_create("books").await.unwrap();

    // Add some books in the index
    books.add_documents(&[
        Book{book_id: 123,  title: String::from("Pride and Prejudice")},
        Book{book_id: 456,  title: String::from("Le Petit Prince")},
        Book{book_id: 1,    title: String::from("Alice In Wonderland")},
        Book{book_id: 1344, title: String::from("The Hobbit")},
        Book{book_id: 4,    title: String::from("Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince")},
        Book{book_id: 42,   title: String::from("The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy")},
    ], Some("book_id")).await.unwrap();

    // Query books (note that there is a typo)
    let query = Query::new("harry pottre");
    println!("{:?}", books.search::<Book>(&query).await.unwrap().hits);
}

Output:

[Book { book_id: 4, title: "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" }]

🌐 Running in the Browser with WASM

This crate fully supports WASM.

The only difference between the WASM and the native version is that the native version has one more variant (Error::Http) in the Error enum. That should not matter so much but we could add this variant in WASM too.

However, making a program intended to run in a web browser requires a very different design than a CLI program. To see an example of a simple Rust web app using MeiliSearch, see the tutorial (not available yet).

WARNING: meilisearch-sdk will panic if no Window is available (ex: Web extension).

Modules

client	Module containing the Client struct.
document	Module containing the Document trait.
errors	Module containing the Error struct.
indexes	Module containing the Index struct.
progress	Module containing objects useful for tracking the progress of async operations.
search	Module related to search queries and results.
settings	Module containing settings