Question: app engine search index & namespaces

[Dhanunjaya Naidu Yandrapu]

Hi,

I am writing a multi-tenant application using appengine namespaces. We need a separate index per tenant for searching employees (to avoid the 10GB limit of a search index). If I create a search index "employees" (in golang search.Open("employees") ) and index (in golang, search.Put(ctx, id, doc) ) the following documents

1. doc1 from tenant 1 with namespace "abc" and 
2. doc2 from tenant 2 with namespace "xyz". 

do those docs go into same index or two different indexes?

thanks,

dhanunjay

[George (Cloud Platform Support)]

Search operations use the namespace associated with a context passed to them when they are called.

To perform an operation in a namespace, wrap a context with appengine.Namespace, and use that context when calling methods on an index. You may see an example in the "Using namespaces with Search" sub-chapter of the "Implementing Multitenancy Using Namespaces" online document. 

This is the usual way of performing operations in a namespace, and would require one index in your situation.