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Fixes #996

What does this PR do?

  • Adds inlineRule support to SearchRequest and IndexSearchRequest.
  • Adds response metadata support for inlineRuleConditionOutcomes.
  • Adds unit tests for request serialization and Gson/Jackson response deserialization.
  • Adds integration test coverage for inline search rules and metadata.
  • Configures integration tests to include the Meili-Include-Metadata: true header.

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Testing results:

  • Focused unit tests passed.
  • Java compilation passed.
  • Enterprise-specific integration behavior still requires verification against a Meilisearch Enterprise server.

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  • Does this PR fix an existing issue, or have you listed the changes applied in the PR description? Yes
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  • Have you made sure that the title is accurate and descriptive of the changes? Yes

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added support for inline rules in regular and multi-search requests.
    • Search responses now expose metadata, including query and index identifiers and inline-rule condition outcomes.

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Search and multi-search requests now serialize inline rules. Search result models expose metadata, including inline-rule condition outcomes. Unit and integration tests cover request serialization, metadata deserialization, and inline-rule searches.

Changes: Inline rule preview

Layer / File(s) Summary
Inline-rule request serialization
src/main/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/IndexSearchRequest.java, src/main/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/SearchRequest.java, src/test/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/IndexSearchRequestTest.java, src/test/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/SearchRequestTest.java
Search request models serialize inlineRule. Unit tests check the serialized rule fields and query.
Search metadata response models
src/main/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/model/..., src/test/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/json/...
Search result models expose SearchMetadata. Gson and Jackson tests check metadata deserialization for search and multi-search results.
Search and multi-search integration
build.gradle, src/test/java/com/meilisearch/integration/...
Integration tests cover inline rules and metadata in search and multi-search requests. Test setup adds the metadata header, and integrationTest uses the test source set’s compiled classes and runtime classpath.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant SearchRequest
  participant Meilisearch
  participant SearchResult
  Caller->>SearchRequest: Set inlineRule
  SearchRequest->>Meilisearch: Send serialized search request
  Meilisearch-->>SearchResult: Return response with metadata
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to dc54d

The integration tests do not yet demonstrate that inline rules change search results. The PR is mergeable with that bounded test-coverage gap understood; Enterprise behavior remains to be validated.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 8d0a1

The change forwards inline rules through existing authenticated search paths and exposes additional response metadata. No introduced authorization bypass was established, but Enterprise authorization and metadata isolation remain unverified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — Caller-controlled rules reach the configured search service through existing single-index and batched search routes. The effective index, tenant, and data exposure depends on remote credential enforcement; repository evidence does not establish those limits.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The SDK serializes inline rules but does not establish server-side authorization for rule evaluation or returned condition metadata. The supplied PR description explicitly leaves Enterprise integration behavior unverified.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The integration lifecycle uses a master-key client against MEILISEARCH_HOST or localhost and deletes all enumerated indexes during cleanup. That authority and broad cleanup predate this PR. New fixtures inherit the lifecycle; isolated-server and interruption-recovery guarantees were not established.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Verify Enterprise enforcement with restricted credentials on both search routes, including unauthorized index access and condition-metadata exposure. Run privileged integration tests only against a disposable, isolated server.
Pre-merge checks: Passed 4 · Failed 1

Failed Failed checks: 1 warning

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Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely summarizes the main changes: inline search rule support and search metadata support.
Linked Issues check Passed Issue #996 is open and directly linked. SearchRequest and IndexSearchRequest serialize inlineRule. SearchMetadata exposes inlineRuleConditionOutcomes, and SearchResult and `MultiSearchResu…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changed files support issue #996. The integration-test task configuration enables the added integration tests, and the metadata header supports the required response metadata. No unrelated functio…
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Actionable comments posted: 1

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src/test/java/com/meilisearch/integration/DynamicSearchRulesTest.java (1)

150-182: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Move this unit-style test out of the integration class.

testSearchRequestWithInlineRule only checks toString() serialization. It makes no server call. SearchRequestTest already covers the same behavior. The test adds no integration value here.

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Review comment at
@src/test/java/com/meilisearch/integration/DynamicSearchRulesTest.java around
lines 150 - 182:
Remove the redundant `testSearchRequestWithInlineRule` method from
`DynamicSearchRulesTest`; it only verifies `SearchRequest.toString()`
serialization, which is already covered by `SearchRequestTest`, and does not
exercise integration behavior.
src/main/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/model/SearchMetadata.java (1)

7-15: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Handle strict custom Jackson mappers.

The default JacksonJsonHandler ignores unknown properties, but the constructor that accepts an ObjectMapper preserves that mapper's settings. A strict custom mapper can therefore fail when SearchMetadata receives a new metadata field. Add @JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown = true) to protect this DTO.

🐛 Suggested fix
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnoreProperties;
 import java.util.Map;
 import lombok.Getter;
 import lombok.ToString;
 
 @Getter
 @ToString
+@JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown = true)
 public class SearchMetadata {
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Review comment at @src/main/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/model/SearchMetadata.java
around lines 7 - 15:
Annotate the SearchMetadata DTO with Jackson’s ignore-unknown-properties
configuration so strict custom ObjectMapper instances can deserialize metadata
containing new fields without failing.

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🔇 Additional comments (14)
src/main/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/model/SearchResult.java (1)

30-34: LGTM!

src/main/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/model/MultiSearchResult.java (1)

30-34: LGTM!

src/main/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/model/SearchResultPaginated.java (1)

28-28: LGTM!

src/main/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/model/Searchable.java (1)

21-24: LGTM!

src/main/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/SearchRequest.java (1)

52-52: LGTM!

Also applies to: 118-119

src/main/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/IndexSearchRequest.java (1)

46-46: LGTM!

Also applies to: 117-118

src/test/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/IndexSearchRequestTest.java (1)

62-87: LGTM!

src/test/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/SearchRequestTest.java (1)

432-464: LGTM!

src/test/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/json/GsonJsonHandlerTest.java (1)

304-337: LGTM!

src/test/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/json/JacksonJsonHandlerTest.java (1)

186-220: LGTM!

build.gradle (1)

112-113: LGTM!

src/test/java/com/meilisearch/integration/classes/AbstractIT.java (2)

47-53: 🩺 Stability & Availability

Config.headers is initialized with a HashMap in configHeaders, and the class-level Lombok @Getter exposes that same map. Config.getHeaders().put(...) is therefore supported. HttpClient also stores the same map reference, so the added header remains visible to requests. No change is needed.


41-45: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

⚠️ Unverified finding
Verification ran but could not confirm this finding. It is shown for review, not as a verified issue.

Remove the commented-out setUp block.

It is dead code that duplicates the removed logic. Git history keeps the old version.

src/test/java/com/meilisearch/integration/DynamicSearchRulesTest.java (1)

187-213: 🎯 Functional Correctness

The tests omit conditions, but no inspected Meilisearch contract states that this causes inlineRuleConditionOutcomes to be omitted. The release notes only describe metadata reporting for inline-rule conditions. The proposed failure and fix are unsupported.


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Inline comments:
Review comments at @src/test/java/com/meilisearch/integration/SearchTest.java:
- Around line 1329-1355: Update testSearchWithInlineRule and the related
inline-rule test so they run only with Meilisearch Enterprise and the
dynamicSearchRules experimental feature enabled; move them to
DynamicSearchRulesTest, which enables the feature during initialize(), or
configure the feature for these tests.

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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @src/main/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/model/SearchMetadata.java:
- Around line 7-15: Annotate the SearchMetadata DTO with Jackson’s
ignore-unknown-properties configuration so strict custom ObjectMapper instances
can deserialize metadata containing new fields without failing.

Review comments at
@src/test/java/com/meilisearch/integration/DynamicSearchRulesTest.java:
- Around line 150-182: Remove the redundant `testSearchRequestWithInlineRule`
method from `DynamicSearchRulesTest`; it only verifies
`SearchRequest.toString()` serialization, which is already covered by
`SearchRequestTest`, and does not exercise integration behavior.

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  • src/main/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/model/SearchMetadata.java
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  • src/main/java/com/meilisearch/sdk/model/SearchResultPaginated.java
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  • src/test/java/com/meilisearch/integration/DynamicSearchRulesTest.java
  • src/test/java/com/meilisearch/integration/SearchTest.java
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Actionable comments posted: 1

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src/test/java/com/meilisearch/integration/DynamicSearchRulesTest.java (1)

229-229: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert an observable effect of the scale action.

Both tests only assert that hits are non-null. The existing plain-search test expects the same batman query and movie fixture to return one hit, so these assertions can pass if the inline scale action has no effect. Comparing hit presence or ordering is not useful with a single matching hit. Assert a scale-affected value, such as the target hit’s score, or use competing fixture hits and assert the expected reordering. The metadata tests check only that condition outcomes are present.

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229:
Update the scale-action assertions in the affected tests in
DynamicSearchRulesTest to verify an observable change, such as the target hit’s
score or the expected ordering of competing hits, rather than only checking that
hits are non-null. Ensure the metadata tests also assert the scale action’s
effect, not just the presence of condition outcomes.

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Review comments at
@src/test/java/com/meilisearch/integration/DynamicSearchRulesTest.java:
- Line 214: In both inline-rule test methods in DynamicSearchRulesTest,
configure the index’s filterable attributes to include title after adding
documents, then wait for the settings update task to complete before searching.
Reuse the index settings API so the inline scale filter is valid regardless of
whether the index already existed.

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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at
@src/test/java/com/meilisearch/integration/DynamicSearchRulesTest.java:
- Line 229: Update the scale-action assertions in the affected tests in
DynamicSearchRulesTest to verify an observable change, such as the target hit’s
score or the expected ordering of competing hits, rather than only checking that
hits are non-null. Ensure the metadata tests also assert the scale action’s
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Hi maintainers! My PR #997 has one workflow awaiting approval. Could a maintainer please approve the GitHub Actions workflow so the required CI checks can run? Thank you!

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Hi maintainers! Just following up on PR #997. The latest commit, dc54d4f, was pushed & the required CI workflows are still awaiting approval. Could someone please review the pending workflow when convenient? Thank you for your time!

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