Replace parent-child with a join field.

Implement hierarchical structures with Elastic join field, in place of
an obsolete (and removed) parent-child relationships.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 
 ### New Features
 
+ * [#760](https://github.com/toptal/chewy/pull/760): Replace parent-child mapping with a [join field](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/removal-of-types.html#parent-child-mapping-types) ([@mrzasa][])
+
 ### Changes
 
 ### Bugs Fixed
@@ -723,4 +725,3 @@
 [@Vitalina-Vakulchyk]: https://github.com/Vitalina-Vakulchyk
 [@webgago]: https://github.com/webgago
 [@yahooguntu]: https://github.com/yahooguntu
-

README.md

@@ -446,6 +446,23 @@ end
 
 See the section on *Script fields* for details on calculating distance in a search.
 
+### Join fields
+
+You can use a [join field](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/parent-join.html)
+to implement parent-child relationships between documents.
+It [replaces the old `parent_id` based parent-child mapping](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/removal-of-types.html#parent-child-mapping-types)
+
+To use it, you need to pass `relations` and `join` (with `type` and `id`) options:
+```ruby
+field :hierarchy_link, type: :join, relations: {question: %i[answer comment], answer: :vote, vote: :subvote}, join: {type: :comment_type, id: :commented_id}
+```
+assuming you have `comment_type` and `commented_id` fields in your model.
+
+Note that when you reindex a parent, it's children and grandchildren will be reindexed as well.
+This may require additional queries to the primary database and to elastisearch.
+
+Also note that the join field doesn't support crutches (it should be a field directly defined on the model).
+
 ### Crutches™ technology
 
 Assume you are defining your index like this (product has_many categories through product_categories):

lib/chewy/errors.rb

@@ -30,4 +30,10 @@ def initialize(type, import_errors)
       super message
     end
   end
+
+  class InvalidJoinFieldType < Error
+    def initialize(join_field_type, join_field_name, relations)
+      super("`#{join_field_type}` set for the join field `#{join_field_name}` is not on the :relations list (#{relations})")
+    end
+  end
 end

lib/chewy/fields/base.rb

@@ -1,18 +1,20 @@
 module Chewy
   module Fields
     class Base
-      attr_reader :name, :options, :value, :children
-      attr_accessor :parent
+      attr_reader :name, :join_options, :options, :children
+      attr_accessor :parent # used by Chewy::Index::Mapping to expand nested fields
 
       def initialize(name, value: nil, **options)
         @name = name.to_sym
         @options = {}
         update_options!(**options)
         @value = value
         @children = []
+        @allowed_relations = find_allowed_relations(options[:relations]) # for join fields
       end
 
       def update_options!(**options)
+        @join_options = options.delete(:join) || {}
         @options = options
       end
 
@@ -53,30 +55,70 @@ def compose(*objects)
         {name => result}
       end
 
+      def value
+        if join_field?
+          join_type = join_options[:type]
+          join_id = join_options[:id]
+          # memoize
+          @value ||= proc do |object|
+            validate_join_type!(value_by_name_proc(join_type).call(object))
+            # If it's a join field and it has join_id, the value is compound and contains
+            # both name (type) and id of the parent object
+            if value_by_name_proc(join_id).call(object).present?
+              {
+                name: value_by_name_proc(join_type).call(object), # parent type
+                parent: value_by_name_proc(join_id).call(object)  # parent id
+              }
+            else
+              value_by_name_proc(join_type).call(object)
+            end
+          end
+        else
+          @value
+        end
+      end
+
     private
 
       def geo_point?
         @options[:type].to_s == 'geo_point'
       end
 
+      def join_field?
+        @options[:type].to_s == 'join'
+      end
+
       def ignore_blank?
         @options.fetch(:ignore_blank) { geo_point? }
       end
 
       def evaluate(objects)
-        object = objects.first
-
         if value.is_a?(Proc)
-          if value.arity.zero?
-            object.instance_exec(&value)
-          elsif value.arity.negative?
-            value.call(*object)
-          else
-            value.call(*objects.first(value.arity))
-          end
+          value_by_proc(objects, value)
         else
-          message = value.is_a?(Symbol) || value.is_a?(String) ? value.to_sym : name
+          value_by_name(objects, value)
+        end
+      end
 
+      def value_by_proc(objects, value)
+        object = objects.first
+        if value.arity.zero?
+          object.instance_exec(&value)
+        elsif value.arity.negative?
+          value.call(*object)
+        else
+          value.call(*objects.first(value.arity))
+        end
+      end
+
+      def value_by_name(objects, value)
+        object = objects.first
+        message = value.is_a?(Symbol) || value.is_a?(String) ? value.to_sym : name
+        value_by_name_proc(message).call(object)
+      end
+
+      def value_by_name_proc(message)
+        proc do |object|
           if object.is_a?(Hash)
             if object.key?(message)
               object[message]
@@ -89,6 +131,20 @@ def evaluate(objects)
         end
       end
 
+      def validate_join_type!(type)
+        return unless type
+        return if @allowed_relations.include?(type.to_sym)
+
+        raise Chewy::InvalidJoinFieldType.new(type, @name, options[:relations])
+      end
+
+      def find_allowed_relations(relations)
+        return [] unless relations
+        return relations unless relations.is_a?(Hash)
+
+        (relations.keys + relations.values).flatten.uniq
+      end
+
       def compose_children(value, *parent_objects)
         return unless value
 

lib/chewy/fields/root.rb

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 module Chewy
   module Fields
     class Root < Chewy::Fields::Base
-      attr_reader :dynamic_templates, :id, :parent, :parent_id
+      attr_reader :dynamic_templates, :id
 
       def initialize(name, **options)
         super(name, **options)
@@ -12,9 +12,7 @@ def initialize(name, **options)
 
       def update_options!(**options)
         @id = options.fetch(:id, options.fetch(:_id, @id))
-        @parent = options.fetch(:parent, options.fetch(:_parent, @parent))
-        @parent_id = options.fetch(:parent_id, @parent_id)
-        @options.merge!(options.except(:id, :_id, :parent, :_parent, :parent_id, :type))
+        @options.merge!(options.except(:id, :_id, :type))
       end
 
       def mappings_hash
@@ -50,12 +48,6 @@ def dynamic_template(*args)
         end
       end
 
-      def compose_parent(object)
-        return unless parent_id
-
-        parent_id.arity.zero? ? object.instance_exec(&parent_id) : parent_id.call(object)
-      end
-
       def compose_id(object)
         return unless id
 

lib/chewy/index/adapter/active_record.rb

@@ -94,6 +94,11 @@ def raw_default_scope_where_ids_in(ids, converter)
           object_class.connection.execute(sql).map(&converter)
         end
 
+        def raw(scope, converter)
+          sql = scope.to_sql
+          object_class.connection.execute(sql).map(&converter)
+        end
+
         def relation_class
           ::ActiveRecord::Relation
         end

lib/chewy/index/adapter/orm.rb

@@ -101,11 +101,13 @@ def load(ids, **options)
           additional_scope = options[options[:_index].to_sym].try(:[], :scope) || options[:scope]
 
           loaded_objects = load_scope_objects(scope, additional_scope)
-            .index_by do |object|
-              object.public_send(primary_key).to_s
-            end
+          loaded_objects = raw(loaded_objects, options[:raw_import]) if options[:raw_import]
+
+          indexed_objects = loaded_objects.index_by do |object|
+            object.public_send(primary_key).to_s
+          end
 
-          ids.map { |id| loaded_objects[id.to_s] }
+          ids.map { |id| indexed_objects[id.to_s] }
         end
 
       private

lib/chewy/index/import.rb

@@ -36,8 +36,7 @@ module ClassMethods
         # passed objects from the index if they are not in the default scope
         # or marked for destruction.
         #
-        # It handles parent-child relationships: if the object parent_id has been
-        # changed it destroys the object and recreates it from scratch.
+        # It handles parent-child relationships with a join field reindexing children when the parent is reindexed.
         #
         # Performs journaling if enabled: it stores all the ids of the imported
         # objects to a specialized index. It is possible to replay particular import