Grails searchable: search for a specific field in a member object?

Question

Using the Grails Searchable plugin, I've got these classes:

class Person {
 static searchable = {
  address component: true
    }
}

and:

class Address {
 static searchable = {
  root false
 }
 String country
}

I want to do a specific search for persons from a specific country. "country:NL" doesn't work. "address:country:NL" doesn't work either. I can't find anything about the syntax for this. Any ideas?

I think I'll have to do some clever indexing or some other trick in the searchable closure, but I just can't find it.

Answer 1

I created a basic app (Grails 1.3.5, Searchable 0.5.5.1) with your two classes and searching for 'country:NL' works for me. Did you remember to call index() before trying to search?

grails create-app search
grains install-plugin searchable

Person:

class Person {
  static searchable = {
    address component: true
  }

  Address address
}

Address:

class Address {
  static belongsTo = Person
  static searchable = {
    root false
  }
  String country
}

Bootstrap:

class BootStrap {

    def init = { servletContext ->

      def p1 = new Person(address:new Address(country:'NL')).save()
      def p2 = new Person(address:new Address(country:'DE')).save()
      def p3 = new Person(address:new Address(country:'NZ')).save()

      Person.index()

    }

    def destroy = {
    }
}

Then I browsed to to /searchable and searched for country:NL and got person 1 returned.

If you want to see what Searchable is doing under the covers with regards to fields/indexes etc - Luke is a very handy tool (just download the executable JAR): http://code.google.com/p/luke/

The index files are in

<user.home>/.grails/projects/<project name>/searchable-index/development/index

cheers

Lee