further adjustments based on seb's feedback

packages/medusa/src/api/routes/store/products/search.js

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ export default async (req, res) => {
   }
 
   try {
-    const { q, indexName, ...options } = value
+    const { q, ...options } = value
 
     const searchService = req.scope.resolve("searchService")
 

packages/medusa/src/loaders/search-index.js

@@ -1,3 +1,49 @@
+import ProductService from "../services/product"
+
+async function loadProductsIntoSearchEngine(container) {
+  const searchService = container.resolve("searchService")
+  const productService = container.resolve("productService")
+
+  const TAKE = 20
+  const totalCount = await productService.count()
+  let iterCount = 0,
+    lastSeenId = "prod"
+
+  while (iterCount < totalCount) {
+    const products = await productService.list(
+      { id: { gt: lastSeenId } },
+      {
+        select: [
+          "id",
+          "title",
+          "subtitle",
+          "description",
+          "handle",
+          "is_giftcard",
+          "discountable",
+          "thumbnail",
+          "profile_id",
+          "collection_id",
+          "type_id",
+          "origin_country",
+          "created_at",
+          "updated_at",
+        ],
+        relations: ["variants", "tags", "type", "collection"],
+        take: TAKE,
+        order: { id: "ASC" },
+      }
+    )
+
+    const transformedBatch = searchService.transformProducts(products)
+
+    await searchService.addDocuments(ProductService.IndexName, transformedBatch)
+
+    iterCount += products.length
+    lastSeenId = products[products.length - 1].id
+  }
+}
+
 export default async ({ container }) => {
   const searchService = container.resolve("searchService")
   const logger = container.resolve("logger")
@@ -7,4 +53,6 @@ export default async ({ container }) => {
     )
     return
   }
+
+  await loadProductsIntoSearchEngine(container)
 }

packages/medusa/src/services/product.js

@@ -2,14 +2,13 @@ import _ from "lodash"
 import { MedusaError } from "medusa-core-utils"
 import { BaseService } from "medusa-interfaces"
 import { Brackets } from "typeorm"
-import { INDEX_NS } from "../utils/index-ns"
 
 /**
  * Provides layer to manipulate products.
  * @implements BaseService
  */
 class ProductService extends BaseService {
-  static IndexName = `${INDEX_NS}_products`
+  static IndexName = `products`
   static Events = {
     UPDATED: "product.updated",
     CREATED: "product.created",

packages/medusa/src/services/search.js

@@ -61,6 +61,13 @@ class DefaultSearchService extends SearchService {
       "This is an empty method: updateSettings must be overridden by a child class"
     )
   }
+
+  transformProducts(products) {
+    this.logger_.warn(
+      "This is an empty method: transformProducts must be overridden by a child class"
+    )
+    return products
+  }
 }
 
 export default DefaultSearchService

packages/medusa/src/utils/index-ns.js

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-export const INDEX_NS = `medusa-commerce`