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What

Add meili search, on POST /indexes/{index_uid}/search only. Restarts #14, closed with "On repart de zéro sur ce travail".

Contract

• The command name and flags derive from its routes by the naming rules of docs/contract/commands.md, and each route is reachable by a distinct set of flags, or the exception is recorded with its reason (or this pull request changes the contract and nothing else)
• Output goes through src/lib/output.ts, errors through src/lib/errors.ts
• The command never waits for a human: no prompt, no question, no $EDITOR; a delete command spreads BaseCommand.confirmFlags and its examples carry --yes
• The command never speaks HTTP itself: the SDK or the generated client only, no fetch outside src/lib/clients/

Verb only, with --index for the path parameter: the two exception rows this needs, POST …/search → search --index and the GET twin without command, were already in the table. Nothing to add to ROUTE_EXCEPTIONS.

Tests

• --help snapshot added or updated on purpose
• JSON output snapshot for one success case per route and one error case
• Integration test added (Meilisearch API commands only)
• pnpm lint, pnpm typecheck, pnpm test pass locally

8 unit tests with msw, 6 integration tests against the docker-compose.yml of this repository, green on Meilisearch v1.54: the hits of --q, the placeholder search, filter + sort + projection + facets, the totalHits/totalPages envelope that --page switches to, --data overridden by a flag, and the real index_not_found.

The only snapshot that changed outside this command is meili schema, which gains the search entry and nothing else.

Simplicity

• Nothing in the diff exists for a case the API cannot produce, a caller that does not exist, or a generality nobody asked for (rule 16)
• Anything shared lives in src/lib/, is used by this command, and is named below

Nothing added to src/lib/. Two conversions stay local to the command file, asNumber for the two flags the route types as numbers and asJson for the one it types as an object. Neither validates: text that does not convert is sent as it is.

Docs

• docs/contract/ updated for every name, flag, variable or code this change adds or renames, or nothing to update
• The ADRs that touch this change were read; what they decide still holds, or a new ADR says what changed
• No accepted ADR was edited. A new ADR was added if a decision changed.

One sentence added to rule 10 of commands.md: a body field or query parameter that an experimental feature gates is out of the contract the same way a route is, so it gets no flag and travels through --data. That also records the useNetwork which get documents already left out, undocumented until now. ADRs 0002 and 0003 read; both still hold.

Housekeeping

• oclif.manifest.json regenerated
• Changeset added, or the change is invisible to users of the package (docs of this repository, tests, CI)
• New dependency justified below, or none added

None added.

Notes for the reviewer

Three interface decisions, taken before writing:

• All 27 non-experimental fields get a flag, not a hand-picked subset (this is where Add meili search, the command the CLI exists for #14 went the other way). Rule 6 says the body fields are the flags, and get documents set the precedent by declaring 7 of the 8 fields of BrowseQuery. The four left out are exactly the ones an experimental feature gates: media (multimodal), personalize, useNetwork (network), inlineRule (dynamicSearchRules).

• --output ndjson is refused, cli_usage and exit 2. output.md ties ndjson to "one item of the API results array"; search answers hits. Supporting it would be a contract change in output.md and in src/lib/output.ts, which a command pull request must not touch.

• --limit and --offset are declared here, not spread from BaseCommand.paginationFlags: they are body fields of this route, and --all has no meaning on a search.

• A flag value the route types as a number or an object is the API's to refuse, not the CLI's. --vector, --ranking-score-threshold and --hybrid carry text that has to be converted; when it does not convert, the text is sent as it is and Meilisearch answers invalid_search_vector, invalid_search_ranking_score_threshold or invalid_search_hybrid_query, each naming the value it refused. Converting anyway was the trap: Number("abc") is NaN, JSON.stringify writes it as null, and a null rankingScoreThreshold is accepted as no threshold at all, so a typo returned exit 0 and the wrong hits. The CLI still refuses what it cannot send: --file and --data are parsed before they can be merged, so malformed JSON there stays cli_input_invalid.

Known, deliberate, and true of every non-list command today: --output ndjson spends the HTTP round trip before failing, because formatData refuses at write time. Fixing it belongs to output.ts.

Ran the simplify skill on the diff. Applied: the 27-field literal is typed SearchParams, so a misspelled field name no longer compiles (it did before, through Object.fromEntries and a cast); a usageErrorOf helper taken from delete documents; SearchResponse from the SDK instead of an interface rewritten by hand in the integration test; the search msw handler no longer simulates a pagination no test reads; the integration test for the ndjson refusal deleted, since the unit test pins it and no sibling integration file repeats a pure-CLI refusal.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added a search command to search an index and display results.
  • Configure searches with flags for supported parameters, including pagination, filtering, sorting, facets, highlighting, hybrid and vector search, and response details.
  • Submit a complete search request body using --data or --file, including fields that are not available as flags. If a field is provided both in the body and as a flag, the flag takes precedence.

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Walkthrough

Adds a search command for POST /indexes/{index_uid}/search. The command supports search flags and JSON body input through --data or --file. Explicit flags take precedence over matching body fields. Unit and integration tests cover request construction, search results, and errors.

Changes: Search command

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Command flags and registration src/commands/search.ts, oclif.manifest.json, docs/contract/commands.md, .changeset/first-version.md	Declares and registers the search command and its flags. The command contract and release note describe body-field support and flag precedence.
Request construction and command tests src/commands/search.ts, test/commands/search.test.ts, test/helpers/meilisearch-handlers.ts	Converts flag values, merges defined flags over JSON body fields, sends the search request, and tests output and error behavior.
Meilisearch integration coverage test/integration/meilisearch/search.test.ts	Tests search results, filters, sorting, projection, facets, pagination, body-field precedence, and errors.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI
  participant SearchCommand
  participant IndexSearchAPI
  participant CLIOutput
  CLI->>SearchCommand: Provide flags and optional JSON body
  SearchCommand->>IndexSearchAPI: Submit merged search parameters
  IndexSearchAPI-->>SearchCommand: Return search response
  SearchCommand->>CLIOutput: Output response

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Possibly related issues

• [Meilisearch v1.55] Add support for dynamic search rule preview meilisearch-php#954: The command supports passing inlineRule through --data or --file for the search endpoint. The issue’s multi-search objective is outside this change.

Possibly related PRs

• meilisearch/cli#21: Adds the shared --data and --file body-input contract used by the search command.
• meilisearch/cli#24: Adds readJsonObjectBody, which the search command uses to parse object bodies.

Merge Risk: Low · up to 81782

Fix the NDJSON preflight behavior and correct the placeholder-search usage documentation before merge.

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- Line 200: Update the numeric conversion used by the search threshold and
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Minor · Reject unsupported NDJSON before calling Meilisearch. · search.ts:185

src/commands/search.ts:185
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject unsupported NDJSON before calling Meilisearch.

search awaits this.meilisearch.index(flags.index).search(undefined, params) before this.output rejects --output ndjson. An API or network error can therefore replace the documented cli_usage exit 2, and unsupported output still sends an unnecessary request. Move the NDJSON validation before the SDK call and preserve the existing usage error.

Suggested fix

+    if (flags.output === "ndjson") {
+      await this.output(undefined);
+    }
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     await this.output(await this.meilisearch.index(flags.index).search(undefined, params));

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Review comment at @src/commands/search.ts at line 185:
Validate `flags.output` before the Meilisearch SDK call in the search command:
reject `ndjson` through the existing `this.output` usage-error path before
invoking `index(...).search(...)`. Preserve the current usage error and leave
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Minor · Document --q as optional. · commands.md:48-65

docs/contract/commands.md:48-65
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Document --q as optional.

meili search supports placeholder searches without --q, but the command contract lists --q without optional brackets. Update the documentation instead of making the flag required.

Suggested fix

-| `POST /indexes/{index_uid}/search` | `meili search --index <index> --q <query>` |
+| `POST /indexes/{index_uid}/search` | `meili search --index <index> [--q <query>]` |

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Review comment at @docs/contract/commands.md around lines 48 - 65:
Update the POST search route entry in the command contract table to show `--q
<query>` as optional, while keeping `--index <index>` required; do not change
the CLI behavior.

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Review comments at @src/commands/search.ts:
- Line 185: Validate `flags.output` before the Meilisearch SDK call in the
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