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Configure Cloudant search

To search for data entries in our Cloudant database, we need to create a design document to define a search index, that search index we will use later in our queries. Then we will create five additional nodes in our flow.

  • Three inject
  • Two cloudant in
  • One debug

The image shows the five wired nodes.

Note: We need to ensure that we saved the data in the database in the right JSON format, when we going to use our queries.

{ "user": {
    "firstname": "Thomas",
    "lastname": "Suedbroecker",
    "country": "Germany"
  }
}

Configure a search index

We need to create a design document to define a search index, that we will use later in our queries.

Here are the parameters for our queries:

  • theFirstname
  • theLastname
  • theCountry

Example usage of a query theLastname:S*:

Step 1: Open the Cloudant the created database absolute-beginner

Step 2: Create a new design document just by press Create document

Step 3: Insert following JSON to create the needed design document

{
  "_id": "_design/_d_searchindex",
  "views": {},
  "language": "javascript",
  "indexes": {
      "_searchindex": {
        "analyzer": "standard",
        "index": "function (doc) {\n  index(\"default\", doc._id);\n\n  if(doc.user.firstname){\n    index(\"theFirstname\", doc.user.firstname, {\"store\": true, \"facet\":true});\n  }\n  if(doc.user.lastname){\n    index(\"theLastname\", doc.user.lastname, {\"store\": true, \"facet\":true });\n  }\n  if(doc.user.country){\n    index(\"theCountry\", doc.user.country, {\"store\": true, \"facet\":true});\n  }\n}"
    }
  }
}
The image shows the new design document.

Step 4: Open the search index _searchindex and insert in query "theFirstname:T*", then press query

Step 5: Now you should be able to use the flow and the UI.