SearchReindexSynchronizer.md

Autorun search and navigation indexing job

Environment synchronizer is unable to trigger this job using "AutoRun: true". This is because the job requires access to HttpContext, and the IScheduledJobExecutor runs jobs as background tasks, where HttpContext does not exist. This can be solved by modifying the job via a custom synchronizer.

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This extension method allows the job to be picked up by the scheduler and run later, removing the need to use IScheduledJobExecutor.

using EPiServer.DataAbstraction;
using System;

namespace YourSite.Infrastructure.Extensions;

public static class ScheduledJobExtensions
{
    public static void ScheduleRunNow(
      this ScheduledJob job, IScheduledJobRepository scheduledJobRepository)
    {
        job.IntervalType = ScheduledIntervalType.None;
        job.IntervalLength = 0;
        job.IsEnabled = true;
        job.NextExecution = DateTime.Now.AddSeconds(10);

        scheduledJobRepository.Save(job);
    }
}

Now we can create a custom handler which schedules the job using our new extension method:

using Addon.Episerver.EnvironmentSynchronizer;
using YourSite.Infrastructure.Extensions;
using EPiServer.DataAbstraction;
using EPiServer.ServiceLocation;
using System;

namespace YourSite.Infrastructure.Envrionments;

[ServiceConfiguration(typeof(IEnvironmentSynchronizer))]
public class SearchReindexEnvironmentSynchronizer : IEnvironmentSynchronizer
{
    private readonly IScheduledJobRepository _scheduledJobRepository;
    private readonly Guid _searchReindexJobId = new Guid("8eb257f9-ff22-40ec-9958-c1c5ba8c2a53");

    public SearchReindexEnvironmentSynchronizer(IScheduledJobRepository scheduledJobRepository) => _scheduledJobRepository = scheduledJobRepository;

    public string Synchronize(string environmentName)
    {
        if (EnvironmentHelper.IsPreProductionEnvironment(environmentName) || EnvironmentHelper.IsIntegrationEnvironment(environmentName))
        {
            var searchReindexJob = _scheduledJobRepository.Get(_searchReindexJobId);

            if (searchReindexJob is not null)
            {
                searchReindexJob.ScheduleRunNow(_scheduledJobRepository);

                return $"Scheduled search reindexing job.";
            }
        }

        return string.Empty;
    }
}

Now you can be sure that the search index is updated every time the database is copied to your test environments from production.