Portal - Full Text Search Web Service

Purpose

The purpose of this service is to be your full text search web service for JavaScript front-ends like React with fetch.

Portal is a full replacement for ElasticSearch and MeiliSearch. These services are either too complex, too resource hungry, and/or too slow.

Portal is built to be simple and fast as possible with JWT verification, indexing, deindexing, search, and suggest.

Indexing is batch indexing by default.

To use this service you need to have running sonic server and a broker server.

Features

• Very performant with almost no CPU and memory usage
• Under 500 lines of code
• Supports CORS
• Supports JWT authenication
• Multi-tenant
• Supports SSL - full end-to-end encryption
• JSON API
• Auto-provision and renews SSL cert via LetsEncrypt
• Built on Sonic and Broker

Use

• create a user on broker, login, and get a JWT - then attach the JWT as an Authorization: Bearer {token} to the following JSON API endpoints

Index

html POST /index - authenticated endpoint (Authorization: Bearer {jwt}) example: json { "items": [{ "collection": "coffee", "bucket": "tenant_1", "id": "49e28aae-88d4-4c19-86d8-51f2c9f11039", "data": { "name": "roasted", "image": "https://img.com/bucket/123/123.jpg" }, "locale": "eng", "indexes": ["name"] }] } - note: locale is an optional field of an ISO 639-3 locale code - if not defined locale will be auto-detected

will return: 200 or 500 or 400 or 401

Search

html POST /search - authenticated endpoint (Authorization: Bearer {jwt}) json { "collection": "coffee", "bucket": "tenant_1", "query": "roasted", "limit": 10, "offset": 10 } - note: limit and offset are optional fields

will return: 200 or 500 or 400 or 401

200 - will return an array of objects json [ { "collection": "coffee", "bucket": "tenant_1", "id": "49e28aae-88d4-4c19-86d8-51f2c9f11039", "data": { "name": "roasted", "image": "https://img.com/bucket/123/123.jpg" }, "locale": "eng", "indexes": ["name"] } ]

Suggest

html POST /suggest - authenticated endpoint (Authorization: Bearer {jwt}) json { "collection": "coffee", "bucket": "tenant_1", "query": "r", "limit": 10 } - note: limit is an optional field

will return: 200 or 500 or 400 or 401

200 - will return an array of words (strings) json ["roasted"]

Deindex

html POST /deindex - authenticated endpoint (Authorization: Bearer {jwt}) json { "ids": ["49e28aae-88d4-4c19-86d8-51f2c9f11039"] }

will return: 200 or 500 or 400 or 401

Install

cargo install portal

• the origin can be passed in as a flag - default *
• the port can be passed in as a flag - default 8888 - can only be set for unsecure connections
• the secure flag (https) and can be true or false - default false
• the certs flag is the storage path of LetsEncrypt certs - default certs
• the db flag is the path where the embedded database will be saved - default db
• the domain flag is the domain name (e.g. api.broker.com) of the domain you want to register with LetsEncrypt - must be fully resolvable
• the sonic_server flag is the sonic domain/ip/port of the sonic server - default localhost:1491
• the sonic_password flag is the sonic password set in the sonic config file - default SecretPassword
• the broker flag is the broker domain/ip/port of the broker server - default http://localhost:8080
• production example: ./portal --secure="true" --domain="index.broker.com" --sonic_server="sonic.broker.com" --sonic_password="wj34T%$Dx" --broker="https://broker.broker.com"

TechStack

• Tide
• RocksDB

Inspiration

• Broker
• Sonic
• ElasticSearch
• MeiliSearch