Qualia lasr

Like lunr, but more focused. Provides search across arrays of objects.

Available on Atmosphere.

Usage

import lasr from 'meteor/qualia:lasr';

const people = [
  {
    _id: 'fireman',
    name: 'The Fireman',
    skills: [
      {
        name: 'Firemaking',
        level: 9000,
      },
      {
        name: 'Watering',
        level: 9001,
      },
    ]
  },
  {
    _id: 'mage',
    name: 'The Mage',
    skills: [
      {
        name: 'Magicking',
        level: 42,
      },
    ]
  },
  {
    _id: 'wizard',
    name: 'The Wizard',
    skills: [
      {
        name: 'Magic',
        level: 41,
      },
    ]
  },
  {
    _id: 'developer',
    name: 'The Developer',
    skills: [
      {
        name: 'Typing',
        level: 9000,
      },
      {
        name: 'Sitting',
        level: 9001,
      },
    ]
  },
];

const results = lasr.search({
  items: people,
  query: 'Magic',
  keys: [
    'name',
    'skills.name',
    'skills.level',
  ],
  limit: 10,
});

results = [
  {
    "item": {
      "_id": "wizard",
      "name": "The Wizard",
      "skills": [
        {
          "name": "Magic",
          "level": 41
        }
      ]
    },
    "score": 1,
    "matches": [
      {
        "key": "skills.name",
        "value": "Magic",
        "indices": [
          [
            0,
            4
          ]
        ],
        "score": 1
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "item": {
      "_id": "mage",
      "name": "The Mage",
      "skills": [
        {
          "name": "Magicking",
          "level": 42
        }
      ]
    },
    "score": 0.5555555555555556,
    "matches": [
      {
        "key": "skills.name",
        "value": "Magicking",
        "indices": [
          [
            0,
            4
          ]
        ],
        "score": 0.5555555555555556
      }
    ]
  }
]

Testing this package

This package has TinyTests. To run the tests, first isolate this package from the Meteor app by copying it to its own directory. For example, to put it in your home directory:

rsync -r path/to/qualia_lasr ~/

Then run the tests from within the copied package directory:

cd ~/qualia_lasr
meteor test-packages ./