rails - Elasticsearch completion suggester and search API - ruby-on-rails

Question

I'm using the search API, and now need to add the completion suggester, I'm using elasticsearch-rails gem.
When I search for an article, everything works
http://localhost:9200/articles/_search
"query": {
"multi_match": {
"query": "test",
"fields": [
"title", "tags", "content"
]
}
}
}
But since I've implemented the completion suggester I had to edit as_indexed_json to make it work, but now the search API doesn't work anymore, only the suggestions.
Here is my Article model:
def self.search(query)
__elasticsearch__.search(
{
query: {
multi_match: {
query: query,
fields: ['title', 'content', 'tags']
}
}
})
end
def self.suggest(query)
Article.__elasticsearch__.client.suggest(:index => Article.index_name, :body => {
:suggestions => {
:text => query,
:completion => {
:field => 'suggest'
}
}
})
end
def as_indexed_json(options={})
{
:name => self.title,
:suggest => {
:input => self.title,
:output => self.title,
:payload => {
:content => self.content,
:tags => self.tags,
:title => self.title
}
}
}.as_json
end
Is it possible to have _search and _suggest working together with the same model ?

Answer 1

I'm just digging into elasticsearch, but, as far as i understand, you can add what you had before modifying in the serializer function and recreate indices, they will live together well in the db. For example:
def as_indexed_json(options={})
{
:name => self.title,
:suggest => {
:input => self.title,
:output => self.title,
:payload => {
:content => self.content,
:tags => self.tags,
:title => self.title
}
}
}.as_json.merge(self.as_json) # or the customized hash you used
To avoid indices redundancy you can look at aliases and routing.