Meilisearch Document

Spring Data Meilisearch provides a simple way to define a Document.

Document definition

To define the Document, you need to annotate a class with the @Document annotation. As an example, the following class defines a Movie document with id, title, description and genres fields.

Example 1. The sample document

import io.vanslog.spring.data.meilisearch.annotations.Document;

import org.springframework.data.annotation.Id;

@Document(indexUid = "movies")
public class Movie {
    @Id private int id;
    private String title;
    private String description;
    private String[] genres;
}

Index UID

The Index UID is a unique identifier for an index. It can be defined explicitly with the indexUid attribute in the @Document annotation.

Example 2. Explicit Index UID

@Document(indexUid = "movies")
public class Movie {
    // fields
}

If the indexUid is not specified or the class is not annotated with @Document, the class name will be used as the index UID by default.

Example 3. Default Index UID (using class name)

// No @Document annotation or no indexUid specified
public class Movie {
    // fields
}

In this case, Movie is used as the index UID.

Document id

The Document id is a unique identifier for a document in an index. It can be defined with @Id annotation or id field.