Conditionally add index to LaravelScout (Algolia)

I’m trying to add an index to Algolia using Laravel Scout based on a condition. For example, I have an Article model and I only want to add this article to Algolia if the article is active.My first method is:

public function toSearchableArray()
 {
    if($this->active) return $record;
    return [];

 }
 

This will only add active records, but will still try to add empty arrays, which are treated as operations in algolia (which I will charge for). The second way is to use shouldBesearchable() Scout functions:

public function shouldBeSearchable()
 {
     if($this->active) return true;
     return false;

 }
 

This doesn’t workphp artisan scout:import "App\Article". Has anyone encountered a similar problem?

1> Julien Bourd..:

This is a bug in Laravel Scout, shouldBeSearchable has not been released yet ( on the master branch), so you might run into issues like this.

Good news though: it’s just fixed by this PR.
https://github.com/laravel/scout/pull/250