undefined method `to_hash' for class `Elasticsearch::Model::Response::Result'

[johaned]

I cannot use Model.search({}).to_a and similar methods when I am using Mongoid, I have the following code:

# app/models/user.rb
# Code extracted from a devise model, also it is using Mongoid 4.0.2 as its ODM
class User
  include Mongoid::Document
  include Elasticsearch::Model
  include Elasticsearch::Model::Callbacks

  index_name "users-#{Rails.env}"

  field :email, type: String, default: ""
  field :first_name, type: String, default: ""
  field :last_name, type: String, default: ""

  def as_indexed_json
    as_json(except: [:_id])
  end

end

I have created my index like this:

  User.__elasticsearch__.create_index! force: true
  User.import

but the search does not work when I try to use the array's methods

  User.search('allam').to_a
  #=> output error: #<NameError: undefined method `to_hash' for class `Elasticsearch::Model::Response::Result'>

I only can use the following code

  User.search('allam').records.to_a

But I do not want to hit the database for retrieving the searched documents

Perhaps did I miss some step?

Thank you for your support!

[karmi]

Hi, this is really surprising, can you investigate the Mongoid example avaialable here: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-rails/blob/master/elasticsearch-model/examples/mongoid_article.rb ? I've tried it now and it works.

Also notice that you can do User.search('allam').results.to_a to load the documents from Elasticsearch, instead from database.

[johaned]

Hi, yesterday I also tried the option that you suggested me: Model.search({}).results.to_a, but I got the same error.

Today I have tried with the example code, and as you mentioned before, it works!

However, in my case the search is still failing, I have made an example project (it is based on a rails template) and I have pushed it to my github here

my key files are the following:

# app/models/book.rb
class Book
  include Mongoid::Document
  include Elasticsearch::Model
  include Elasticsearch::Model::Callbacks

  index_name "books-#{Rails.env}"

  field :title, type: String
  field :author, type: String

  def as_indexed_json(options={})
    as_json(except: [:id, :_id])
  end
end

# config/initializers/elasticsearch.rb
Elasticsearch::Model.client = Elasticsearch::Client.new url: ENV['ELASTICSEARCH_URL'] || 'http://localhost:9200'

# Book.__elasticsearch__.client.indices.delete index: Book.index_name rescue nil

unless Book.__elasticsearch__.index_exists?
  Book.__elasticsearch__.create_index! force: true
  Book.import
end

This is strange because some days ago I had almost the same configuration but using PostgreSQL and it worked

Also notice that I can perform some actions on the results object, for example (based on my example project)

Book.search('Children').results.count
#=> 1

But when I try to call some array's methods it breaks

Book.search('Children').results.to_a
#=> (pry) output error: #<NameError: undefined method `to_hash' for class `Elasticsearch::Model::Response::Result'>

[johaned]

Hi,

(Sorry for my english...) I have found the error, at the beginning I was thinking that it could be related with my Pry configuration, I'm using the jazz_hands gem, but in summary the problem was focused on this part of code:

Pry.config.print = ->(output, value, _pry_) do
  return if JazzHands._hirb_output && Hirb::View.view_or_page_output(value)
  pretty = value.ai(indent: 2) # <-- ERROR
  _pry_.pager.page("=> #{pretty}")
end

value is an instance of Elasticsearch::Model::Response::Result and the "ai" method is an alias for awesome_inspect, and the real problem was focused on this method (source available here)

what is happening here is that when this method (awesome_inspect) is invoked and the value is a kind of Hash instance (Hashie in this case) there is a method that is invoked for formatting the value which is named "convert_to_hash" (source available here), inside this method we have the following situation:

Elasticsearch::Model::Response::Result#respond_to? :to_hash
#=> true

but,

Elasticsearch::Model::Response::Result#method :to_hash
#=> NameError: undefined method `to_hash' for class `Elasticsearch::Model::Response::Result'

so this is replicable when for example I use awesome_print directly, (in my example project without the jazz_hands gem)

Book.search('Children').results.to_a # it works!
#=> [#<Elasticsearch::Model::Response::Result:0x007f8b82903f48 @result=#<Hashie::Mash _id="5588213f4a75612cc5010000" _index="books-development" _score=0.4375 _source=#<Hashie::Mash author="Ian McEwan" title="The Children Act"> _type="book">>]

ap Book.search('Children').results.to_a.first  # it does not work                   
#=> NameError: undefined method `to_hash' for class `Elasticsearch::Model::Response::Result'

Book.search('Children').results.to_a.first.method(:to_hash) # it does not work 
#=> NameError: undefined method `to_hash' for class `Elasticsearch::Model::Response::Result'

What I did for solving the problem was to make a method named 'to_hash' inside the Elasticsearch::Model::Response::Result class (source available here), all the tests are running but I don't know if this solution is ok (also I have tested this solution using both ActiveRecord and Mongoid and it works!), however, I have made a pull request but I had a problem with my CLA (I already have one but it does not work, I'll back in 60 minutes).

What do you think about my simple solution @karmi ?

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