Elastically, Elastica based framework

Opinionated Elastica based framework to bootstrap PHP and Elasticsearch implementations.

Main features:

• DTO are first class citizen, you send PHP object as documents, and get objects back on search results, like an ODM;
• All indexes are versioned and aliased automatically;
• Mappings are done via YAML files, PHP or custom via MappingProviderInterface;
• Analysis is separated from mappings to ease reuse;
• 100% compatibility with ruflin/elastica;
• Mapping migration capabilities with ReIndex;
• Symfony HttpClient compatible transport (optional);
• Symfony support (optional):
  • See dedicated chapter;
  • Tested with Symfony 5.4 to 7;
  • Symfony Messenger Handler support (with or without spool);

Important

Require PHP 8.0+ and Elasticsearch 8+.

Works with Elasticsearch 7 as well but is not officially supported by Elastica 8. Use with caution.

Version 2+ does not work with OpenSearch anymore due to restrictions added by Elastic on their client.

You can check the changelog and the upgrade documents.

Installation

composer require jolicode/elastically

Demo

Tip

If you are using Symfony, you can move to the Symfony chapter

Quick example of what the library do on top of Elastica:

// Your own DTO, or one generated by Jane (see below)
class Beer
{
    public string $foo;
    public string $bar;
}

use JoliCode\Elastically\Factory;
use JoliCode\Elastically\Model\Document;

// Factory object with Elastica options + new Elastically options in the same array
$factory = new Factory([
    // Where to find the mappings
    Factory::CONFIG_MAPPINGS_DIRECTORY => __DIR__.'/mappings',
    // What objects to find in each index
    Factory::CONFIG_INDEX_CLASS_MAPPING => [
        'beers' => Beer::class,
    ],
]);

// Class to perform request, same as the Elastica Client
$client = $factory->buildClient();

// Class to build Indexes
$indexBuilder = $factory->buildIndexBuilder();

// Create the Index in Elasticsearch
$index = $indexBuilder->createIndex('beers');

// Set the proper aliases
$indexBuilder->markAsLive($index, 'beers');

// Class to index DTO(s) in an Index
$indexer = $factory->buildIndexer();

$dto = new Beer();
$dto->bar = 'American Pale Ale';
$dto->foo = 'Hops from Alsace, France';

// Add a document to the queue
$indexer->scheduleIndex('beers', new Document('123', $dto));
$indexer->flush();

// Set parameters on the Bulk
$indexer->setBulkRequestParams([
    'pipeline' => 'covfefe',
    'refresh' => 'wait_for'
]);

// Force index refresh if needed
$indexer->refresh('beers');

// Get the Document (new!)
$results = $client->getIndex('beers')->getDocument('123');

// Get the DTO (new!)
$results = $client->getIndex('beers')->getModel('123');

// Perform a search
$results = $client->getIndex('beers')->search('alsace');

// Get the Elastic Document
$results->getDocuments()[0];

// Get the Elastica compatible Result
$results->getResults()[0];

// Get the DTO 🎉 (new!)
$results->getResults()[0]->getModel();

// Create a new version of the Index "beers"
$index = $indexBuilder->createIndex('beers');

// Slow down the Refresh Interval of the new Index to speed up indexation
$indexBuilder->slowDownRefresh($index);
$indexBuilder->speedUpRefresh($index);

// Set proper aliases
$indexBuilder->markAsLive($index, 'beers');

// Clean the old indices (close the previous one and delete the older)
$indexBuilder->purgeOldIndices('beers');

// Mapping change? Just call migrate and enjoy a full reindex (use the Task API internally to avoid timeout)
$newIndex = $indexBuilder->migrate($index);
$indexBuilder->speedUpRefresh($newIndex);
$indexBuilder->markAsLive($newIndex, 'beers');

Note

scheduleIndex is here called with "beers" index because the index was already created before. If you are creating a new index and want to index documents into it, you should pass the Index object directly.

mappings/beers_mapping.yaml

# Anything you want, no validation
settings:
    number_of_replicas: 1
    number_of_shards: 1
    refresh_interval: 60s
mappings:
    dynamic: false
    properties:
        foo:
            type: text
            analyzer: english
            fields:
                keyword:
                    type: keyword

Configuration

This library add custom configurations on top of Elastica's:

Factory::CONFIG_MAPPINGS_DIRECTORY (required with default configuration)

The directory Elastically is going to look for YAML.

When creating a foobar index, a foobar_mapping.yaml file is expected.

If an analyzers.yaml file is present, all the indices will get it.

Factory::CONFIG_INDEX_CLASS_MAPPING (required)

An array of index name to class FQN.

[
  'indexName' => My\AwesomeDTO::class,
]

Factory::CONFIG_MAPPINGS_PROVIDER

An instance of MappingProviderInterface.

If this option is not defined, the factory will fall back to YamlProvider and will use Factory::CONFIG_MAPPINGS_DIRECTORY option.

There are two providers available in Elastically: YamlProvider and PhpProvider.

Factory::CONFIG_SERIALIZER (optional)

A SerializerInterface compatible object that will be used on indexation.

Default to Symfony Serializer with Object Normalizer.

A faster alternative is to use Jane to generate plain PHP Normalizer, see below. Also, we recommend customization to handle things like Date.

Factory::CONFIG_DENORMALIZER (optional)

A DenormalizerInterface compatible object that will be used on search results to build your objects back.

If this option is not defined, the factory will fall back to Factory::CONFIG_SERIALIZER option.

Factory::CONFIG_SERIALIZER_CONTEXT_BUILDER (optional)

An instance of ContextBuilderInterface that build a serializer context from a class name.

If it is not defined, Elastically, will use a StaticContextBuilder with the configuration from Factory::CONFIG_SERIALIZER_CONTEXT_PER_CLASS.

Factory::CONFIG_SERIALIZER_CONTEXT_PER_CLASS (optional)

Allow to specify the Serializer context for normalization and denormalization.

[
    Beer::class => ['attributes' => ['title']],
];

Default to [].

Factory::CONFIG_BULK_SIZE (optional)

When running indexation of lots of documents, this setting allow you to fine-tune the number of document threshold.

Default to 100.

Factory::CONFIG_INDEX_PREFIX (optional)

Add a prefix to all indexes and aliases created via Elastically.

Default to null.

Usage in Symfony

Configuration

You'll need to add the bundle in bundles.php:

// config/bundles.php
return [
    // ...
    JoliCode\Elastically\Bridge\Symfony\ElasticallyBundle::class => ['all' => true],
];

Then configure the bundle:

# config/packages/elastically.yaml
elastically:
    connections:
        default:
            client:
                host:                '%env(ELASTICSEARCH_HOST)%'

            # Path to the mapping directory (in YAML)
            mapping_directory:       '%kernel.project_dir%/config/elasticsearch'

            # Size of the bulk sent to Elasticsearch (default to 100)
            bulk_size:               100

            # Mapping between an index name and a FQCN
            index_class_mapping:
                my-foobar-index:     App\Dto\Foobar

            # Configuration for the serializer
            serializer:
                # Fill a static context
                context_mapping:
                    foo:                 bar

            # If you want to add a prefix for your index in elasticsearch (you can still call it by its base name everywhere!)
            # prefix: '%kernel.environment%'

Finally, inject one of those service (autowirable) in you code where you need it:

JoliCode\Elastically\Client (elastically.default.client)
JoliCode\Elastically\IndexBuilder (elastically.default.index_builder)
JoliCode\Elastically\Indexer (elastically.default.indexer)

Advanced Configuration

Multiple Connections and Autowiring

If you define multiple connections, you can define a default one. This will be useful for autowiring:

elastically:
    default_connection: default
    connections:
        default: # ...
        another: # ...

To use class for other connection, you can use Autowirable Types. To discover them, run:

bin/console debug:autowiring elastically

Use a Custom Serializer Context Builder

elastically:
    default_connection: default
    connections:
        default:
            serializer:
                context_builder_service: App\Elastically\Serializer\ContextBuilder
                # Do not define "context_mapping" option anymore

Use a Custom Mapping provider

elastically:
    default_connection: default
    connections:
        default:
            mapping_provider_service: App\Elastically\MappingProvider
            # Do not define "index_class_mapping" option anymore

Using HttpClient as Transport

You can also use the Symfony HttpClient for all Elastica communications:

JoliCode\Elastically\Transport\HttpClientTransport: ~

JoliCode\Elastically\Client:
    arguments:
        $config:
            host: '%env(ELASTICSEARCH_HOST)%'
            transport_client:
                client: '@my_custom_psr18_client' # An instance of Symfony\Component\HttpClient\Psr18Client (Or any PSR 18 compliant one)

See the official documentation on how to get a PSR-18 client.

Reference

You can run the following command to get the default configuration reference:

bin/console config:dump elastically

Using Messenger for async indexing

Elastically ships with a default Message and Handler for Symfony Messenger.

Register the message in your configuration:

framework:
    messenger:
        transports:
            async: "%env(MESSENGER_TRANSPORT_DSN)%"

        routing:
            # async is whatever name you gave your transport above
            'JoliCode\Elastically\Messenger\IndexationRequest':  async

services:
    JoliCode\Elastically\Messenger\IndexationRequestHandler: ~

The IndexationRequestHandler service depends on an implementation of JoliCode\Elastically\Messenger\DocumentExchangerInterface, which isn't provided by this library. You must provide a service that implements this interface, so you can plug your database or any other source of truth.

Then from your code you have to call:

use JoliCode\Elastically\Messenger\IndexationRequest;
use JoliCode\Elastically\Messenger\IndexationRequestHandler;

$bus->dispatch(new IndexationRequest(Product::class, '1234567890'));

// Third argument is the operation, so for a "delete" add this argument:
// new IndexationRequest(Product::class, 'ref9999', IndexationRequestHandler::OP_DELETE);

And then consume the messages:

php bin/console messenger:consume async

Grouping IndexationRequest in a spool

Sending multiple IndexationRequest during the same Symfony Request is not always appropriate, it will trigger multiple Bulk operations. Elastically provides a Kernel listener to group all the IndexationRequest in a single MultipleIndexationRequest message.

To use this mechanism, we send the IndexationRequest in a memory transport to be consumed and grouped in a really async transport:

messenger:
    transports:
        async: "%env(MESSENGER_TRANSPORT_DSN)%"
        queuing: 'in-memory:///'

    routing:
        'JoliCode\Elastically\Messenger\MultipleIndexationRequest': async
        'JoliCode\Elastically\Messenger\IndexationRequest': queuing

You also need to register the subscriber:

services:
    JoliCode\Elastically\Messenger\IndexationRequestSpoolSubscriber:
        arguments:
            - '@messenger.transport.queuing' # should be the name of the memory transport
            - '@messenger.default_bus'
        tags:
            - { name: kernel.event_subscriber }

Using Jane to build PHP DTO and fast Normalizers

Install JanePHP json-schema tools to build your own DTO and Normalizers. All you have to do is setting the Jane-completed Serializer on the Factory:

$factory = new Factory([
    Factory::CONFIG_SERIALIZER => $serializer,
]);

Caution

Elastically is not compatible with Jane < 6.

To be done

• some "todo" in the code
• optional Doctrine connector
• better logger - maybe via a processor? extending _log is supposed to be deprecated :(
• extra commands to monitor, update mapping, reindex... Commonly implemented tasks
• optional Symfony integration:
  • web debug toolbar!
• scripts / commands for common tasks:
  • auto-reindex when the mapping change, handle the aliases and everything
  • micro monitoring for cluster / indexes
  • health-check method

Sponsors

Open Source time sponsored by JoliCode.