Manually sync items

Hi Michael.

Yes running a bulk re-index catches the updates, but the site has 100k images.

On the frontend the user can assign 1 – 100 images to taxonomy ( for example ), so doesn’t make sense to trigger a full re-index, ideally just looking for a way to trigger a small batch, sending a array of the affected ID’s.

Thanks,

Ian

Hi Michael,

We’re assigning a taxonomy term to the attachment post, using wp_set_object_terms

Thanks for the watchers link – looks like the handle_changes function is hooked in on wp_set_object_terms function. But if I’m reading that correctly, looks like the handle_changes function is syncing the terms themselves, not the posts attached to the terms.

Not sure that’s logical, as the term themselves don’t change when calling wp_set_object_terms, but the term relationships do ( e.g. what terms are assigned to what do ). Shouldn’t that function should sync the $object_id’s not the $term_id’s?

If there a function we can call to manually batch sync a list of post/attachment ID’s, then we should be able to hook it all together.

Thanks,

Ian

• This reply was modified 3 months ago by ianatkins.

Hi Michael.

Yes we see individual API requests in Algolia when attachment_updated, each request for a single attachment at a time. Ideally am trying to batch those requests.

For example when I tag 16 images, I see 32 individual API requests, with data for 1 attachment per request. ( one request for the searchable index, another for the attachment index ).

I’m trying to get it working more like when you re-index, then the API requests have 100 posts per request.

Thanks.

Hey Michael,

Not at all, appreciate the support and that it’s a niche use case!

Yes, is two API calls for each post updated at the moment, ( essentially with each trigger of attachment_updated )

In the example below $collection_media_ids is an array of the attachment posts to update. Ideally would like to trigger a sync after the foreach, just sending the array of IDs to update, not making individual syncs.

// Add to existing collection
$collection_id = absint($collection_id);

// Update
foreach( $collection_media_ids as $media_id) {

   wp_set_object_terms( $media_id, $collection_id,'collection', true);

   // Trigger do_action so Algolia index updates
   do_action( 'attachment_updated', $media_id, false, false );

}

If I don’t trigger do_action, I don’t see any activity in the Algolia logs, so nothing seems to get synced.

Thanks.

Ian.

Hey Michael.

Below is far as i’ve got, calling update_records doesn’t work as it’s a private method. Have just called sync_item on the individual index I’m interested in, rather than calling the action which other plugins might be hooked into.

Do let me know if there is a more effecient way to batch multiple syncs in one hit, without rebuilding the whole index.

Thanks!

        // Add to existing collection
        $collection_id = absint($collection_id);
        
        // Sync to algolia
        $algolia_plugin     = \Algolia_Plugin_Factory::create();
        $synced_indices_ids = $algolia_plugin->get_settings()->get_synced_indices_ids();
        $index_name_prefix  = $algolia_plugin->get_settings()->get_index_name_prefix();
        $client             = $algolia_plugin->get_api()->get_client();
        
        $index = new \Algolia_Posts_Index( 'attachment' );
        $index->set_name_prefix( $index_name_prefix );
        $index->set_client( $client );
        $index->set_enabled( true );

        // Update
        foreach( $collection_media_ids as $media_id) {
            
            // Add Taxonomy Term
            wp_set_object_terms( $media_id, $collection_id,'collection', true);

            // Sync to Algolia index
            $media = get_post( $media_id );

            // Sync to Algolia
            try {
                $index->sync($media);
            } catch ( AlgoliaException $exception ) {
                error_log( $exception->getMessage() ); // phpcs:ignore -- Legacy.
            }
        }