I guess you would need to have your own method in your controller to fire up the indexing tool. From what it looks like, you need a few things to get going:
- The classname of the tool i.e
AssetIndex
- An array of asset sources or
*
for them all - An indexing session id
- An array of parameters to send to the tool
So I managed to get something working with the following code (this would go in your plugin controller)
public function actionUpdateIndex()
{
// Get the AssetIndex tool
$tool = craft()->components->getComponentByTypeAndClass(ComponentType::Tool, 'AssetIndex');
// Generate an AssetIndex session id for us to use
$sessionId = craft()->assetIndexing->getIndexingSessionId();
// Set up some params
$params = array(
'start' => '1', // Tells the tool this is the initial request
'sources' => '*', // All of them or [1,2,3] just ids1
);
// See [1]
foreach($response['batches'] as $key => $value)
{
foreach($value as $key => $batch)
{
// All the needed params are set in the array to do the index
$tool->performAction($batch['params']);
}
}
}
Each time you call $tool->performAction($batch['params']);
you will an array back, something like:
Array
(
[success] => 1
)
[1] Because this is the initial request craft will return an array with a batches
index, which we then have to do a few loops through, it looks something like this:
Array
(
[batches] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[params] => Array
(
[sessionId] => 6d08c5ba-169f-4b99-a7bd-cdc26c9428c7
[sourceId] => 1
[total] => 12
[offset] => 0
[process] => 1
)
)
)
)
[total] => 0
)
Not sure if this is the absolute best way to do it, I was learning as I was going, but this worked for me so hopefully it'll work for you too :)