API client / Methods / Dictionaries

Save dictionary entries

Required API Key: any key with the editSettings ACL
Method signature
$client->saveDictionaryEntries(
  string dictionary,
  array  dictionaryEntries
);

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About this method

Send a batch of entries to a dictionary.

Examples

Read the Algolia CLI documentation for more information.

Save stopword entries

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$client->saveDictionaryEntries(
  'stopwords',
  array(array(
    'objectID' => 'down',
    'language' => 'en',
    'word' => 'down'
  ))
);

Save plural entries

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$client->saveDictionaryEntries(
  'plurals',
  array(array(
    'objectID' => 'chevaux',
    'language' => 'fr',
    'words' => array('cheval', 'chevaux')
  ))
);

Save compound entries

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$client->saveDictionaryEntries(
  'compounds',
  array(array(
    'objectID' => 'kopfschmerztablette',
    'language' => 'de',
    'word' => 'kopfschmerztablette',
    'decomposition' => array('kopf', 'schmerz', 'tablette')
  ))
);

Parameters

Parameter Description
dictionary
type: string
Required

Type of the dictionary entries you want to save. Can be either stopword, plural or compound

dictionaryEntries
Required

An array of dictionary entries. Can contain either a list of stopwordEntry, pluralEntry or compoundEntry.

requestOptions
type: key-value mapping
default: No request options
Optional

A mapping of requestOptions to send along with the request.

dictionaryEntry ➔ stopwordEntry

Parameter Description
objectID
type: string
Required

Unique identifier of the entry to add or override.

language
type: string
Required

Language ISO code supported by the dictionary (for example “en” for English).

word
type: string
Required

The stop word you want to add or update. If the entry already exists in the standard dictionary provided by Algolia, you can override its behavior by adding it to the custom dictionary and setting its state to disabled.

state
type: string
default: enabled
Optional

The state of the entry:

  • enabled: enable the current stopword

  • disabled: disable the current stopword

dictionaryEntry ➔ pluralEntry

Parameter Description
objectID
type: string
Required

Unique identifier of the entry to add or override.

language
type: string
Required

Language ISO code supported by the dictionary (for example “en” for English).

words
type: string
Required

List of word declensions. If the entry already exists in the standard dictionary provided by Algolia, you can override its behavior by adding it to the custom dictionary and setting its state to disabled.

dictionaryEntry ➔ compoundEntry

Parameter Description
objectID
type: string
Required

Unique identifier of the entry to add or override.

language
type: string
Required

Language ISO code supported by the dictionary (for example de for German).

word
type: string
Required
  • When decomposition is empty: adds word as a compound atom.

    For example, atom “kino” decomposes the query “kopfkino” into “kopf” and “kino”.

  • When decomposition isn’t empty: creates a decomposition exception.

    For example, when decomposition is set to ["hund", "hutte"]exception “hundehutte” decomposes the word into “hund” and “hutte”, discarding the linking morpheme “e”.

decomposition
type: string array
Required
  • When empty, the key word is considered as a compound atom.
  • Otherwise, it’s the decomposition of word.

Response

This section shows the JSON response returned by the API. Each API client encapsulates this response inside objects specific to the programming language, so that the actual response might be different. You can view the response by using the getLogs method. Don’t rely on the order of attributes in the response, as JSON doesn’t guarantee the ordering of keys in objects.

JSON format

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{
  "updatedAt":"2013-01-18T15:33:13.556Z",
  "taskID": 678
}
Field Description
updatedAt
string

Date at which the indexing job has been created.

taskID
integer

The taskID used with the waitTask method.

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