Mongoose full-text search plugin

Simple mongoose plugin for full text search. Uses [natural] https://github.com/NaturalNode/natural stemming and distance algorythms.

Example

  var mongoose = require('mongoose'),
    searchPlugin = require('mongoose-search-plugin');

  var Schema = mongoose.Schema({
    title: String,
    descirption: String,
    tags: [String]
  });

  Schema.plugin(searchPlugin({
    fields: ['title', 'description', 'tags']
  }));

  var Model = mongoose.model('MySearchModel', Schema);
  Model.search('some query', {title: 1}, {
    conditions: {title: {$exists: true}},
    sort: {title: 1},
    limit: 10
  }, function(err, data) {
    // array of finded results
    console.log(data.results);
    // count of all matching objects
    console.log(data.totalCount);
  });

Installation

  $ npm install mongoose-search-plugin --save

Usage

Initialization

plugin accepts options argument with following format:

  var options = {
    keywordsPath: '_keywords', // path for keywords, `_keywords` as default
    relevancePath: '_relevance', // path for relevance number, '_relevance' as default
    fields: [], // array of fields to use as keywords (can be String or [String] types),
    stemmer: 'PorterStemmer', // natural stemmer, PorterStemmer as default
    distance: 'JaroWinklerDistance' // distance algorythm, JaroWinklerDistance as default
  };
  Schema.plugin(searchPlugin(options));

Search

Model.search(query, fields, options, callback) options are optional. Method will return object of the following format:

  {
    results: [], // array of results objects
    totalCount: 0 // number of objects, that matched criteries
  }

By default results sorts by relevance field, that defined in relevancePath plugin option.

Set keywords

If You start using plugin on existing database to initialize keywords field in object use setKeywords method.

  Model.setKeywords(function(err) {
    // ...
  });

License: MIT