I am working to add Spotlight indexing for my app entities as discussed in WWDC24's video "What's New in App Intents".
That video goes over the IndexedEntity protocol and the integration with Spotlight via CSSearchableItemAttributeSet.
What I'm seeing though does not match the video. In the video, the presenter goes through the sort of progressive approach you can take to getting this data into Spotlight starting with the basics and then expanding to include more support depending on how much the developer wants to do.
What I'm seeing is that if you conform to IndexedEntity, your entities will appear in Spotlight using the name derived from
public var displayRepresentation: DisplayRepresentation
So, that works. Name appears... BUT the next part of the video goes into how to expand your implementation with more metadata for Spotlight via CSSearchableItemAttributeSet. The issue I'm seeing is that once that's implemented, the items disappear from Spotlight, almost like that implementation is overriding the base implementation in a way that no longer functions.
My expectation is that an item with custom attributes would use them in Spotlight as appropriate, not disappear from search, i.e. what's shown in the video should work.
I've got a sample project here:
https://hanchor.s3.amazonaws.com/misc/IndexingTest.zip
To reproduce with the sample:
- Build and run. Indexing is setup in the init() method so it will just run.
- Go to Spotlight and search for 'Huntersblau', a string included in the content set. At this point you should see a result - good!
- Stop the app and go back and uncomment the
var attributeSet: CSSearchableItemAttributeSetimplementation in IndexingTestApp.swift. This will provide custom attributes to Spotlight.
Repeat steps 1 and 2 - you'll see now, it no longer appears in the search results - when CSSearchableItemAttributeSet is implemented, the item drops out of Spotlight.