6. Block field contribute to searchableText

Sometimes we want the blocks to be "searchable", to participate in the SearchableText extracted for that content type.

There are two solutions for this, the simple but inneficient, and the efficient but complicated.

6.1. Client side solution

The block provides the data to be indexed in its searchableText attribute:

{ "@type": "image", "align": "center", "alt": "Plone Conference 2021 logo", "searchableText": "Plone Conference 2021 logo", "size": "l", "url": "https://2021.ploneconf.org/images/logoandfamiliesalt.svg" } This is the easy solution.

6.2. Server side solution

For each new block, you need to write an adapter that will extract the searchable text from the block information:

@implementer(IBlockSearchableText)
@adapter(IBlocks, IBrowserRequest)
class ImageSearchableText(object):
    def __init__(self, context, request):
        self.context = context
        self.request = request

    def __call__(self, block_value):
        return block_value['alt_text']

See plone.restapi.interfaces.IBlockSearchableText for details. The __call__ methods needs to return a string, for the text to be indexed.

This adapter needs to be registered as a named adapter, where the name is the same as the block type (its @type property from the block value):

<adapter name="image" factory=".indexers.ImageBlockSearchableText" />