API client / Methods / Rules
Required API Key: any key with the settings ACL
Method signature
$index->searchRules(string query)

$index->searchRules(string query, [
  // All the following parameters are optional
  'anchoring' => string,
  'context' => string,
  'page' => integer,
  'hitsPerPage' => integer,
  'enabled' => boolean
])

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About this method

Search for rules matching various criteria.

Examples

Read the Algolia CLI documentation for more information.

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$response = $index->searchRules('something', [
  'enabled' => true
]);

Parameters

Parameter Description
query
type: string
default: ""
Optional

Full text query.

anchoring
type: string|enum
default: all anchoring
Optional

When specified, restricts matches to rules with a specific anchoring type. When omitted, all anchoring types may match. One of the following values:

  • is,
  • startsWith,
  • endsWith,
  • contains
context
type: string
default: Any context
Optional

Restricts matches to contextual rules with a specific context (exact match).

page
type: integer
default: 0
Optional

Requested page (zero-based).

hitsPerPage
type: integer
default: 20
Optional

Maximum number of hits in a page. Minimum is 1, maximum is 1000.

enabled
type: boolean
default: none
Optional

When specified, restricts matches to rules with a specific enabled status. When absent (default), all rules are retrieved, regardless of their enabled status.

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

A mapping of requestOptions to send along with the request.

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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{
  "hits":[
    {
      "conditions":[{
        "pattern":"smartphone",
        "anchoring":"contains"
      }],
      "consequence":{
        "params":{
          "filters":"category = 1"
        }
      },
      "objectID":"a-rule-id",
      "_highlightResult":{
        "conditions":[{
          "pattern":{
            "value":"<b>s<\/b>martphone",
            "matchLevel":"full",
            "fullyHighlighted":false,
            "matchedWords":[
              "s"
            ]
          }],
          "anchoring":{
            "value":"contains",
            "matchLevel":"none",
            "matchedWords":[

            ]
          }
        },
        "consequence":{
          "params":{
            "filters":{
              "value":"category = 1",
              "matchLevel":"none",
              "matchedWords":[

              ]
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  "nbHits":1,
  "page":0,
  "nbPages":1
}
Field Description
hits
list of rule

Rule objects matched by the search query (see Rule Schema). Highlighting is provided through the standard mechanism (_highlightResult attribute inside every returned object)

nbHits
integer

Total number of rules matching the query.

page
integer

Returned page number (zero-based).

nbPages
integer

Total number of pages.

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