Magento Integration with Solr

Question

I have integrated Solr with Magento EE. Solr logs whatever I search in Magento fronted search box.

I'd like to know if Magento will also use Solr engine if the search REST API is called?

Endpoints-

Product Details - GET- http://<magento_host>/rest/V1/products/:sku

Get Category - GET - http://<magento_host>//V1/categories/:categoryId

General Search API - GET

http://<magento_host>/rest/V1/products/?
searchCriteria[filter_groups][0][filters][0][field]=category_gear&
searchCriteria[filter_groups][0][filters][0][value]=86&
searchCriteria[filter_groups][0][filters][0][condition_type]=finset

and the API's mentioned here http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/howdoi/webapi/search-criteria.html

Answer 1

The search API is located here :

vendor/magento/module-search/etc/webapi.xml

<route url="/V1/search" method="GET">
    <service class="Magento\Search\Api\SearchInterface" method="search"/>
    <resources>
        <resource ref="anonymous" />
    </resources>
</route>

vendor/magento/framework/Search/Search.php

/**
 * {@inheritdoc}
 */
public function search(SearchCriteriaInterface $searchCriteria)
{
    $this->requestBuilder->setRequestName($searchCriteria->getRequestName());

    $scope = $this->scopeResolver->getScope()->getId();
    $this->requestBuilder->bindDimension('scope', $scope);

    foreach ($searchCriteria->getFilterGroups() as $filterGroup) {
        foreach ($filterGroup->getFilters() as $filter) {
            $this->addFieldToFilter($filter->getField(), $filter->getValue());
        }
    }

    $this->requestBuilder->setFrom($searchCriteria->getCurrentPage() * $searchCriteria->getPageSize());
    $this->requestBuilder->setSize($searchCriteria->getPageSize());
    $request = $this->requestBuilder->create();
    $searchResponse = $this->searchEngine->search($request);

    return $this->searchResponseBuilder->build($searchResponse)
        ->setSearchCriteria($searchCriteria);
}

So you can use existing search defined in the search_request.xml files or build your own search requests.

Example for catalogsearch used on the Magento FO : vendor/magento/module-catalog-search/etc/search_request.xml

Then you can extend the SearchEngine module to add new search features such as autocomplete.

Moreover you can see that other API calls such as /V1/products/:sku do not use Search Engine but repository with Mysql request behind :

vendor/magento/module-catalog/etc/webapi.xml

<route url="/V1/products/:sku" method="GET">
    <service class="Magento\Catalog\Api\ProductRepositoryInterface" method="get"/>
    <resources>
        <resource ref="Magento_Catalog::products" />
    </resources>
</route>

vendor/magento/module-catalog/Model/ProductRepository.php

/**
 * {@inheritdoc}
 */
public function get($sku, $editMode = false, $storeId = null, $forceReload = false)
{
    $cacheKey = $this->getCacheKey([$editMode, $storeId]);
    if (!isset($this->instances[$sku][$cacheKey]) || $forceReload) {
        $product = $this->productFactory->create();

        $productId = $this->resourceModel->getIdBySku($sku);
        if (!$productId) {
            throw new NoSuchEntityException(__('Requested product doesn\'t exist'));
        }
        if ($editMode) {
            $product->setData('_edit_mode', true);
        }
        if ($storeId !== null) {
            $product->setData('store_id', $storeId);
        }
        $product->load($productId);
        $this->instances[$sku][$cacheKey] = $product;
        $this->instancesById[$product->getId()][$cacheKey] = $product;
    }
    return $this->instances[$sku][$cacheKey];
}

And by the way I recommended ElasticSearch with Magento EE.