CRUD actions

To proceed with steps bellow it is necessary to read mapping topic and have defined documents in the bundle.

For all steps below we assume that there is an AppBundle with the Content document.

// src/AppBundle/Document/Content.php

namespace AppBundle\Document;

use ONGR\ElasticsearchBundle\Annotation as ES;

/**
 * @ES\Document(type="content")
 */
class Content
{
    /**
     * @var string
     *
     * @ES\Id()
     */
    public $id;

    /**
     * @ES\Property(type="keyword")
     */
    public $title;
}

Manager

Elasticsearch bundle provides managers able to handle several indexes to communicate with elasticsearch.

Once you define managers in your config.yml file, you can use them in controllers and grab them from DI container via es.manager (alias for es.manager.default). If you define more than one manager, for example called foo, then it will be accessible via es.manager.foo.

$manager = $this->get('es.manager');

Repositories

In addition manager provides repository access, which enables direct access to the elasticsearch type.
Repository represents a document. Whenever you need to do any action with a repository, you can access it like this:

$manager = $this->get('es.manager');
$repo = $manager->getRepository('AppBundle:Content');

Alternatively:

$repo = $this->get('es.manager.default.content');

default - represents a manager name and content an elasticsearch type name.

Important: Document with the certain type name has to be mapped in the manager.

You can also get a manager from the repo instance:

$manager = $repo->getManager();

Create a document

$content = new Content();
$content->id = 5; // Optional, if not set, elasticsearch will set a random.
$content->title = 'Acme title';
$manager->persist($content);
$manager->commit();

Update a document

$content = $manager->find('AppBundle:Content', 5);
$content->title = 'changed Acme title';
$manager->persist($content);
$manager->commit();

Partial update

There is a quicker way to update a document field without creating object or fetching a whole document from elasticsearch. For this action we will use partial update from elasticsearch.

To update a field you need to know the document ID and fields to update. Here's an example:

$repo = $this->get('es.manager.default.content');
$repo->update(1, ['title' => 'new title']);

You can also update fields with script operation, lets say, you want to do some math:

$repo = $this->get('es.manager.default.product');
$repo->update(1, [], 'ctx._source.stock+=1');

Important: when using script update fields cannot be updated, leave empty array, otherwise you will get 400 exception.

ctx._source comes from groovy scripting and you have to enable it in elasticsearch config with: script.groovy.sandbox.enabled: false

In addition you also can get other document fields with the response of update, lets say we also want a content field and a new title, so just add them separated by a comma:

$repo = $this->get('es.manager.default.content');
$response = $repo->update(1, ['title' => 'new title'], null, ['fields' => 'title,content']);

Delete a document

Document removal can be performed similarly to create or update action:

$manager->remove($content);
$manager->commit();

Alternatively you can remove document by ID (requires to have repository service):

$repo = $this->get('es.manager.default.content');
$content = $repo->delete(5);