Discovery Engine V1 API - Class Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::SearchService::Rest::Client (v1.3.0)

Reference documentation and code samples for the Discovery Engine V1 API class Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::SearchService::Rest::Client.

REST client for the SearchService service.

Service for search.

Inherits

  • Object

Includes

Methods

.configure

def self.configure() { |config| ... } -> Client::Configuration

Configure the SearchService Client class.

See Configuration for a description of the configuration fields.

Yields
  • (config) — Configure the Client client.
Yield Parameter
Returns
Example 
# Modify the configuration for all SearchService clients
::Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::SearchService::Rest::Client.configure do |config|
  config.timeout = 10.0
end

#configure

def configure() { |config| ... } -> Client::Configuration

Configure the SearchService Client instance.

The configuration is set to the derived mode, meaning that values can be changed, but structural changes (adding new fields, etc.) are not allowed. Structural changes should be made on Client.configure.

See Configuration for a description of the configuration fields.

Yields
  • (config) — Configure the Client client.
Yield Parameter
Returns

#initialize

def initialize() { |config| ... } -> Client

Create a new SearchService REST client object.

Yields
  • (config) — Configure the SearchService client.
Yield Parameter
Returns
  • (Client) — a new instance of Client
Example 
# Create a client using the default configuration
client = ::Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::SearchService::Rest::Client.new

# Create a client using a custom configuration
client = ::Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::SearchService::Rest::Client.new do |config|
  config.timeout = 10.0
end

#location_client

def location_client() -> Google::Cloud::Location::Locations::Rest::Client

Get the associated client for mix-in of the Locations.

Returns
  • (Google::Cloud::Location::Locations::Rest::Client)

#search

def search(request, options = nil) -> ::Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::SearchResponse
def search(serving_config: nil, branch: nil, query: nil, image_query: nil, page_size: nil, page_token: nil, offset: nil, one_box_page_size: nil, data_store_specs: nil, filter: nil, canonical_filter: nil, order_by: nil, user_info: nil, language_code: nil, facet_specs: nil, boost_spec: nil, params: nil, query_expansion_spec: nil, spell_correction_spec: nil, user_pseudo_id: nil, content_search_spec: nil, safe_search: nil, user_labels: nil, search_as_you_type_spec: nil, session: nil, session_spec: nil) -> ::Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::SearchResponse

Performs a search.

Overloads 
def search(request, options = nil) -> ::Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::SearchResponse
Pass arguments to search via a request object, either of type Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::SearchRequest or an equivalent Hash.
Parameters
  • request (::Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::SearchRequest, ::Hash) — A request object representing the call parameters. Required. To specify no parameters, or to keep all the default parameter values, pass an empty Hash.
  • options (::Gapic::CallOptions, ::Hash) — Overrides the default settings for this call, e.g, timeout, retries etc. Optional. 
def search(serving_config: nil, branch: nil, query: nil, image_query: nil, page_size: nil, page_token: nil, offset: nil, one_box_page_size: nil, data_store_specs: nil, filter: nil, canonical_filter: nil, order_by: nil, user_info: nil, language_code: nil, facet_specs: nil, boost_spec: nil, params: nil, query_expansion_spec: nil, spell_correction_spec: nil, user_pseudo_id: nil, content_search_spec: nil, safe_search: nil, user_labels: nil, search_as_you_type_spec: nil, session: nil, session_spec: nil) -> ::Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::SearchResponse
Pass arguments to search via keyword arguments. Note that at least one keyword argument is required. To specify no parameters, or to keep all the default parameter values, pass an empty Hash as a request object (see above).
Parameters
  • serving_config (::String) — Required. The resource name of the Search serving config, such as projects/*/locations/global/collections/default_collection/engines/*/servingConfigs/default_serving_config, or projects/*/locations/global/collections/default_collection/dataStores/default_data_store/servingConfigs/default_serving_config. This field is used to identify the serving configuration name, set of models used to make the search.
  • branch (::String) — The branch resource name, such as projects/*/locations/global/collections/default_collection/dataStores/default_data_store/branches/0.

    Use default_branch as the branch ID or leave this field empty, to search documents under the default branch.

  • query (::String) — Raw search query.
  • image_query (::Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::SearchRequest::ImageQuery, ::Hash) — Raw image query.
  • page_size (::Integer) — Maximum number of Documents to return. The maximum allowed value depends on the data type. Values above the maximum value are coerced to the maximum value.

    • Websites with basic indexing: Default 10, Maximum 25.
    • Websites with advanced indexing: Default 25, Maximum 50.
    • Other: Default 50, Maximum 100.

    If this field is negative, an INVALID_ARGUMENT is returned.

  • page_token (::String) — A page token received from a previous SearchService.Search call. Provide this to retrieve the subsequent page.

    When paginating, all other parameters provided to SearchService.Search must match the call that provided the page token. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

  • offset (::Integer) — A 0-indexed integer that specifies the current offset (that is, starting result location, amongst the Documents deemed by the API as relevant) in search results. This field is only considered if page_token is unset.

    If this field is negative, an INVALID_ARGUMENT is returned.

  • one_box_page_size (::Integer) — The maximum number of results to return for OneBox. This applies to each OneBox type individually. Default number is 10.
  • data_store_specs (::Array<::Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::SearchRequest::DataStoreSpec, ::Hash>) — Specs defining dataStores to filter on in a search call and configurations for those dataStores. This is only considered for engines with multiple dataStores use case. For single dataStore within an engine, they should use the specs at the top level.
  • filter (::String) — The filter syntax consists of an expression language for constructing a predicate from one or more fields of the documents being filtered. Filter expression is case-sensitive.

    If this field is unrecognizable, an INVALID_ARGUMENT is returned.

    Filtering in Vertex AI Search is done by mapping the LHS filter key to a key property defined in the Vertex AI Search backend -- this mapping is defined by the customer in their schema. For example a media customer might have a field 'name' in their schema. In this case the filter would look like this: filter --> name:'ANY("king kong")'

    For more information about filtering including syntax and filter operators, see Filter

  • canonical_filter (::String) — The default filter that is applied when a user performs a search without checking any filters on the search page.

    The filter applied to every search request when quality improvement such as query expansion is needed. In the case a query does not have a sufficient amount of results this filter will be used to determine whether or not to enable the query expansion flow. The original filter will still be used for the query expanded search. This field is strongly recommended to achieve high search quality.

    For more information about filter syntax, see SearchRequest.filter.

  • order_by (::String) — The order in which documents are returned. Documents can be ordered by a field in an Document object. Leave it unset if ordered by relevance. order_by expression is case-sensitive.

    For more information on ordering the website search results, see Order web search results. For more information on ordering the healthcare search results, see Order healthcare search results. If this field is unrecognizable, an INVALID_ARGUMENT is returned.

  • user_info (::Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::UserInfo, ::Hash) — Information about the end user. Highly recommended for analytics. UserInfo.user_agent is used to deduce device_type for analytics.
  • language_code (::String) — The BCP-47 language code, such as "en-US" or "sr-Latn". For more information, see Standard fields. This field helps to better interpret the query. If a value isn't specified, the query language code is automatically detected, which may not be accurate.
  • facet_specs (::Array<::Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::SearchRequest::FacetSpec, ::Hash>) — Facet specifications for faceted search. If empty, no facets are returned.

    A maximum of 100 values are allowed. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

  • boost_spec (::Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::SearchRequest::BoostSpec, ::Hash) — Boost specification to boost certain documents. For more information on boosting, see Boosting
  • params (::Hash{::String => ::Google::Protobuf::Value, ::Hash}) —

    Additional search parameters.

    For public website search only, supported values are:

    • user_country_code: string. Default empty. If set to non-empty, results are restricted or boosted based on the location provided. For example, user_country_code: "au"

    For available codes see Country Codes

    • search_type: double. Default empty. Enables non-webpage searching depending on the value. The only valid non-default value is 1, which enables image searching. For example, search_type: 1
  • query_expansion_spec (::Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::SearchRequest::QueryExpansionSpec, ::Hash) — The query expansion specification that specifies the conditions under which query expansion occurs.
  • spell_correction_spec (::Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::SearchRequest::SpellCorrectionSpec, ::Hash) — The spell correction specification that specifies the mode under which spell correction takes effect.
  • user_pseudo_id (::String) — A unique identifier for tracking visitors. For example, this could be implemented with an HTTP cookie, which should be able to uniquely identify a visitor on a single device. This unique identifier should not change if the visitor logs in or out of the website.

    This field should NOT have a fixed value such as unknown_visitor.

    This should be the same identifier as UserEvent.user_pseudo_id and CompleteQueryRequest.user_pseudo_id

    The field must be a UTF-8 encoded string with a length limit of 128 characters. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

  • content_search_spec (::Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::SearchRequest::ContentSearchSpec, ::Hash) — A specification for configuring the behavior of content search.
  • safe_search (::Boolean) — Whether to turn on safe search. This is only supported for website search.
  • user_labels (::Hash{::String => ::String}) — The user labels applied to a resource must meet the following requirements:

    • Each resource can have multiple labels, up to a maximum of 64.
    • Each label must be a key-value pair.
    • Keys have a minimum length of 1 character and a maximum length of 63 characters and cannot be empty. Values can be empty and have a maximum length of 63 characters.
    • Keys and values can contain only lowercase letters, numeric characters, underscores, and dashes. All characters must use UTF-8 encoding, and international characters are allowed.
    • The key portion of a label must be unique. However, you can use the same key with multiple resources.
    • Keys must start with a lowercase letter or international character.

    See Google Cloud Document for more details.

  • search_as_you_type_spec (::Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::SearchRequest::SearchAsYouTypeSpec, ::Hash) — Search as you type configuration. Only supported for the IndustryVertical.MEDIA vertical.
  • session (::String) — The session resource name. Optional.

    Session allows users to do multi-turn /search API calls or coordination between /search API calls and /answer API calls.

    Example #1 (multi-turn /search API calls):

    1. Call /search API with the auto-session mode (see below).
    2. Call /search API with the session ID generated in the first call. Here, the previous search query gets considered in query standing. I.e., if the first query is "How did Alphabet do in 2022?" and the current query is "How about 2023?", the current query will be interpreted as "How did Alphabet do in 2023?".

    Example #2 (coordination between /search API calls and /answer API calls):

    1. Call /search API with the auto-session mode (see below).
    2. Call /answer API with the session ID generated in the first call. Here, the answer generation happens in the context of the search results from the first search call.

    Auto-session mode: when projects/.../sessions/- is used, a new session gets automatically created. Otherwise, users can use the create-session API to create a session manually.

    Multi-turn Search feature is currently at private GA stage. Please use v1alpha or v1beta version instead before we launch this feature to public GA. Or ask for allowlisting through Google Support team.

  • session_spec (::Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::SearchRequest::SessionSpec, ::Hash) — Session specification.

    Can be used only when session is set.

Yields
  • (result, operation) — Access the result along with the TransportOperation object
Yield Parameters
Returns
Raises
  • (::Google::Cloud::Error) — if the REST call is aborted.
Example

Basic example

require "google/cloud/discovery_engine/v1"

# Create a client object. The client can be reused for multiple calls.
client = Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::SearchService::Rest::Client.new

# Create a request. To set request fields, pass in keyword arguments.
request = Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::SearchRequest.new

# Call the search method.
result = client.search request

# The returned object is of type Gapic::PagedEnumerable. You can iterate
# over elements, and API calls will be issued to fetch pages as needed.
result.each do |item|
  # Each element is of type ::Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::SearchResponse::SearchResult.
  p item
end

#search_lite

def search_lite(request, options = nil) -> ::Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::SearchResponse
def search_lite(serving_config: nil, branch: nil, query: nil, image_query: nil, page_size: nil, page_token: nil, offset: nil, one_box_page_size: nil, data_store_specs: nil, filter: nil, canonical_filter: nil, order_by: nil, user_info: nil, language_code: nil, facet_specs: nil, boost_spec: nil, params: nil, query_expansion_spec: nil, spell_correction_spec: nil, user_pseudo_id: nil, content_search_spec: nil, safe_search: nil, user_labels: nil, search_as_you_type_spec: nil, session: nil, session_spec: nil) -> ::Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::SearchResponse

Performs a search. Similar to the SearchService.Search method, but a lite version that allows API key for authentication, where OAuth and IAM checks are not required.

Only public website search is supported by this method. If data stores and engines not associated with public website search are specified, a FAILED_PRECONDITION error is returned.

This method can be used for easy onboarding without having to implement an authentication backend. However, it is strongly recommended to use SearchService.Search instead with required OAuth and IAM checks to provide better data security.

Overloads 
def search_lite(request, options = nil) -> ::Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::SearchResponse
Pass arguments to search_lite via a request object, either of type Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::SearchRequest or an equivalent Hash.
Parameters
  • request (::Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::SearchRequest, ::Hash) — A request object representing the call parameters. Required. To specify no parameters, or to keep all the default parameter values, pass an empty Hash.
  • options (::Gapic::CallOptions, ::Hash) — Overrides the default settings for this call, e.g, timeout, retries etc. Optional. 
def search_lite(serving_config: nil, branch: nil, query: nil, image_query: nil, page_size: nil, page_token: nil, offset: nil, one_box_page_size: nil, data_store_specs: nil, filter: nil, canonical_filter: nil, order_by: nil, user_info: nil, language_code: nil, facet_specs: nil, boost_spec: nil, params: nil, query_expansion_spec: nil, spell_correction_spec: nil, user_pseudo_id: nil, content_search_spec: nil, safe_search: nil, user_labels: nil, search_as_you_type_spec: nil, session: nil, session_spec: nil) -> ::Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::SearchResponse
Pass arguments to search_lite via keyword arguments. Note that at least one keyword argument is required. To specify no parameters, or to keep all the default parameter values, pass an empty Hash as a request object (see above).
Parameters
  • serving_config (::String) — Required. The resource name of the Search serving config, such as projects/*/locations/global/collections/default_collection/engines/*/servingConfigs/default_serving_config, or projects/*/locations/global/collections/default_collection/dataStores/default_data_store/servingConfigs/default_serving_config. This field is used to identify the serving configuration name, set of models used to make the search.
  • branch (::String) — The branch resource name, such as projects/*/locations/global/collections/default_collection/dataStores/default_data_store/branches/0.

    Use default_branch as the branch ID or leave this field empty, to search documents under the default branch.

  • query (::String) — Raw search query.
  • image_query (::Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::SearchRequest::ImageQuery, ::Hash) — Raw image query.
  • page_size (::Integer) — Maximum number of Documents to return. The maximum allowed value depends on the data type. Values above the maximum value are coerced to the maximum value.

    • Websites with basic indexing: Default 10, Maximum 25.
    • Websites with advanced indexing: Default 25, Maximum 50.
    • Other: Default 50, Maximum 100.

    If this field is negative, an INVALID_ARGUMENT is returned.

  • page_token (::String) — A page token received from a previous SearchService.Search call. Provide this to retrieve the subsequent page.

    When paginating, all other parameters provided to SearchService.Search must match the call that provided the page token. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

  • offset (::Integer) — A 0-indexed integer that specifies the current offset (that is, starting result location, amongst the Documents deemed by the API as relevant) in search results. This field is only considered if page_token is unset.

    If this field is negative, an INVALID_ARGUMENT is returned.

  • one_box_page_size (::Integer) — The maximum number of results to return for OneBox. This applies to each OneBox type individually. Default number is 10.
  • data_store_specs (::Array<::Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::SearchRequest::DataStoreSpec, ::Hash>) — Specs defining dataStores to filter on in a search call and configurations for those dataStores. This is only considered for engines with multiple dataStores use case. For single dataStore within an engine, they should use the specs at the top level.
  • filter (::String) — The filter syntax consists of an expression language for constructing a predicate from one or more fields of the documents being filtered. Filter expression is case-sensitive.

    If this field is unrecognizable, an INVALID_ARGUMENT is returned.

    Filtering in Vertex AI Search is done by mapping the LHS filter key to a key property defined in the Vertex AI Search backend -- this mapping is defined by the customer in their schema. For example a media customer might have a field 'name' in their schema. In this case the filter would look like this: filter --> name:'ANY("king kong")'

    For more information about filtering including syntax and filter operators, see Filter

  • canonical_filter (::String) — The default filter that is applied when a user performs a search without checking any filters on the search page.

    The filter applied to every search request when quality improvement such as query expansion is needed. In the case a query does not have a sufficient amount of results this filter will be used to determine whether or not to enable the query expansion flow. The original filter will still be used for the query expanded search. This field is strongly recommended to achieve high search quality.

    For more information about filter syntax, see SearchRequest.filter.

  • order_by (::String) — The order in which documents are returned. Documents can be ordered by a field in an Document object. Leave it unset if ordered by relevance. order_by expression is case-sensitive.

    For more information on ordering the website search results, see Order web search results. For more information on ordering the healthcare search results, see Order healthcare search results. If this field is unrecognizable, an INVALID_ARGUMENT is returned.

  • user_info (::Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::UserInfo, ::Hash) — Information about the end user. Highly recommended for analytics. UserInfo.user_agent is used to deduce device_type for analytics.
  • language_code (::String) — The BCP-47 language code, such as "en-US" or "sr-Latn". For more information, see Standard fields. This field helps to better interpret the query. If a value isn't specified, the query language code is automatically detected, which may not be accurate.
  • facet_specs (::Array<::Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::SearchRequest::FacetSpec, ::Hash>) — Facet specifications for faceted search. If empty, no facets are returned.

    A maximum of 100 values are allowed. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

  • boost_spec (::Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::SearchRequest::BoostSpec, ::Hash) — Boost specification to boost certain documents. For more information on boosting, see Boosting
  • params (::Hash{::String => ::Google::Protobuf::Value, ::Hash}) —

    Additional search parameters.

    For public website search only, supported values are:

    • user_country_code: string. Default empty. If set to non-empty, results are restricted or boosted based on the location provided. For example, user_country_code: "au"

    For available codes see Country Codes

    • search_type: double. Default empty. Enables non-webpage searching depending on the value. The only valid non-default value is 1, which enables image searching. For example, search_type: 1
  • query_expansion_spec (::Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::SearchRequest::QueryExpansionSpec, ::Hash) — The query expansion specification that specifies the conditions under which query expansion occurs.
  • spell_correction_spec (::Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::SearchRequest::SpellCorrectionSpec, ::Hash) — The spell correction specification that specifies the mode under which spell correction takes effect.
  • user_pseudo_id (::String) — A unique identifier for tracking visitors. For example, this could be implemented with an HTTP cookie, which should be able to uniquely identify a visitor on a single device. This unique identifier should not change if the visitor logs in or out of the website.

    This field should NOT have a fixed value such as unknown_visitor.

    This should be the same identifier as UserEvent.user_pseudo_id and CompleteQueryRequest.user_pseudo_id

    The field must be a UTF-8 encoded string with a length limit of 128 characters. Otherwise, an INVALID_ARGUMENT error is returned.

  • content_search_spec (::Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::SearchRequest::ContentSearchSpec, ::Hash) — A specification for configuring the behavior of content search.
  • safe_search (::Boolean) — Whether to turn on safe search. This is only supported for website search.
  • user_labels (::Hash{::String => ::String}) — The user labels applied to a resource must meet the following requirements:

    • Each resource can have multiple labels, up to a maximum of 64.
    • Each label must be a key-value pair.
    • Keys have a minimum length of 1 character and a maximum length of 63 characters and cannot be empty. Values can be empty and have a maximum length of 63 characters.
    • Keys and values can contain only lowercase letters, numeric characters, underscores, and dashes. All characters must use UTF-8 encoding, and international characters are allowed.
    • The key portion of a label must be unique. However, you can use the same key with multiple resources.
    • Keys must start with a lowercase letter or international character.

    See Google Cloud Document for more details.

  • search_as_you_type_spec (::Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::SearchRequest::SearchAsYouTypeSpec, ::Hash) — Search as you type configuration. Only supported for the IndustryVertical.MEDIA vertical.
  • session (::String) — The session resource name. Optional.

    Session allows users to do multi-turn /search API calls or coordination between /search API calls and /answer API calls.

    Example #1 (multi-turn /search API calls):

    1. Call /search API with the auto-session mode (see below).
    2. Call /search API with the session ID generated in the first call. Here, the previous search query gets considered in query standing. I.e., if the first query is "How did Alphabet do in 2022?" and the current query is "How about 2023?", the current query will be interpreted as "How did Alphabet do in 2023?".

    Example #2 (coordination between /search API calls and /answer API calls):

    1. Call /search API with the auto-session mode (see below).
    2. Call /answer API with the session ID generated in the first call. Here, the answer generation happens in the context of the search results from the first search call.

    Auto-session mode: when projects/.../sessions/- is used, a new session gets automatically created. Otherwise, users can use the create-session API to create a session manually.

    Multi-turn Search feature is currently at private GA stage. Please use v1alpha or v1beta version instead before we launch this feature to public GA. Or ask for allowlisting through Google Support team.

  • session_spec (::Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::SearchRequest::SessionSpec, ::Hash) — Session specification.

    Can be used only when session is set.

Yields
  • (result, operation) — Access the result along with the TransportOperation object
Yield Parameters
Returns
Raises
  • (::Google::Cloud::Error) — if the REST call is aborted.
Example

Basic example

require "google/cloud/discovery_engine/v1"

# Create a client object. The client can be reused for multiple calls.
client = Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::SearchService::Rest::Client.new

# Create a request. To set request fields, pass in keyword arguments.
request = Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::SearchRequest.new

# Call the search_lite method.
result = client.search_lite request

# The returned object is of type Gapic::PagedEnumerable. You can iterate
# over elements, and API calls will be issued to fetch pages as needed.
result.each do |item|
  # Each element is of type ::Google::Cloud::DiscoveryEngine::V1::SearchResponse::SearchResult.
  p item
end

#universe_domain

def universe_domain() -> String

The effective universe domain

Returns
  • (String)