Stats

About this widget

Each search results comes with a SearchStats structure containing metadata that you might display in your search experience.

The following information is available within SearchStats:

• hitsPerPage: Number of hits per page.
• totalHitsCount: Total number of hits.
• pagesCount: Total number of pages.
• page: Current page.
• processingTimeMS: Processing time of the request (in ms).
• query: Query text that produced these results.

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To add Stats to your search experience, use these components:

• Searcher: The Searcher that handles your searches.
• StatsInteractor: The logic applied to the stats.
• StatsController: The controller that interfaces with a concrete stats view.

InstantSearch provides two StatsControllers:

• LabelStatsController: presents metadata in UILabel in the form of text.
• AttributedLabelStatsController: presents metadata in UILabel in the form of attributed text.

The format in which metadata appears in StatsController is defined in the presenter closure provided while connecting the controller with Interactor.

Examples

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let searcher: SingleIndexSearcher = .init(appID: "YourApplicationID",
                                          apiKey: "YourSearchOnlyAPIKey",
                                          indexName: "YourIndexName")
let statsInteractor: StatsInteractor = .init()
let labelStatsController: LabelStatsController = LabelStatsController(label: UILabel())

override viewDidLoad() {
  super.viewDidLoad()

  // Connect stats interactor with searcher
  statsInteractor.connectSearcher(searcher)

  // Connect stats interactor with controller providing presenting closure
  statsInteractor.connectController(labelStatsController) { stats -> String? in
    guard let stats = stats else {
      return "Error occured"
    }
    return "\(stats.totalHitsCount) hits in \(stats.processingTimeMS) ms"
  }

  // Launch the search
  searcher.search()
}

Customize your view

The controllers provided by default, like the LabelStatsController work well when you want to use native UIKit with their default behavior.

If you want to use another component (other than a UILabel) such as a UITextView, a 3rd party view, or want to introduce some custom behavior to the already provided UIKit component, you can create your own controller conforming to the StatsTextController protocol.

Protocol

func setItem(_ item: String?): Function called when new metadata are received.

Example

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public class LabelStatsController: StatsTextController {

  public let label: UILabel

  public init (label: UILabel) {
    self.label = label
  }
  
  public func setItem(_ item: String?) {
    label.text = item
  }

}