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A pluggable integration with ElasticSearch to provide advanced content searches in Firebase.
http://firebase.github.io/flashlight/
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[question] How do you determine where to conduct the search? #147

Closed chrillewoodz closed 7 years ago

chrillewoodz commented 7 years ago

I'm looking in the example files and I see that you choose a type which is what you'll be searching. What I can't wrap my head around though is that the value of type is either user or message, but the database paths seems to be users and messages.

So how does flashlight know where to search?

katowulf commented 7 years ago

In exports.paths, we specify the type to index each record as in Flashlight. So the DB path it is taken from doesn't really play into the search portion.