indexable fields

packages/builder/src/builderStore/dataBinding.js

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import { backendUiStore, store } from "builderStore"
 import { findAllMatchingComponents, findComponentPath } from "./storeUtils"
 import { makePropSafe } from "@budibase/string-templates"
 import { TableNames } from "../constants"
+import { search } from "../../../server/src/api/controllers/row"
 
 // Regex to match all instances of template strings
 const CAPTURE_VAR_INSIDE_TEMPLATE = /{{([^}]+)}}/g
@@ -64,6 +65,7 @@ export const getDatasourceForProvider = component => {
     return {
       tableId: component[datasourceSetting?.key],
       type: "table",
+      searchableOnly: datasourceSetting.searchableOnly,
     }
   }
   return null
@@ -195,6 +197,12 @@ export const getSchemaForDatasource = datasource => {
         schema = cloneDeep(table.views?.[datasource.name]?.schema)
       } else {
         schema = cloneDeep(table.schema)
+        // Find searchable fields only
+        if (datasource.searchableOnly) {
+          Object.keys(table.schema).forEach(key => {
+            if (!table.schema[key].searchable) delete schema[key]
+          })
+        }
       }
     }
   }

packages/server/src/api/controllers/row.js

@@ -229,6 +229,20 @@ exports.fetchView = async function(ctx) {
   }
 }
 
+exports.createIndex = async function(ctx) {
+  const appId = "app_1987903cf3604d459969c80cf17651a0"
+  const db = new CouchDB(appId)
+
+  ctx.body = await db.createIndex({
+    index: {
+      fields: ctx.request.body.fields,
+      name: "search_index",
+      ddoc: "search_ddoc",
+      type: "json",
+    },
+  })
+}
+
 exports.search = async function(ctx) {
   // const appId = ctx.user.appId
   const appId = "app_1987903cf3604d459969c80cf17651a0"

packages/server/src/api/routes/row.js

@@ -31,6 +31,11 @@ router
     usage,
     rowController.save
   )
+  .post(
+    "/api/createindex",
+    // authorized(PermissionTypes.TABLE, PermissionLevels.READ),
+    rowController.createIndex
+  )
   .post(
     "/api/:tableId/rows/search",
     // authorized(PermissionTypes.TABLE, PermissionLevels.READ),

packages/standard-components/manifest.json

@@ -130,7 +130,8 @@
       {
         "type": "table",
         "label": "Table",
-        "key": "table"
+        "key": "table",
+        "searchableOnly": true
       },
       {
         "type": "multifield",

packages/standard-components/src/Search.svelte

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 
   $: fetchData(table, pagination)
   // omit empty strings
-  $: parsedSearch = Object.keys(search).reduce((acc, next) => search[next] ? { ...acc, [next]: search[next] } : acc, {})
+  $: parsedSearch = Object.keys(search).reduce((acc, next) => search[next] === "" ? acc : { ...acc, [next]: search[next] }, {})
 
   async function fetchData(table, pagination) {
     if (!isEmpty(table)) {