Adding ID Field to Index and Schema Retrospectively
TLDR Zach asked about adding an ID field in the schema without altering existing documents. Jason suggested creating a new field called id_search for this purpose.
1Jun 07, 2023 (3 months ago)
Zach
12:14 AMError: e: Request failed with HTTP code 400 | Server said: Field `id` cannot be altered.
Jason
12:19 AMid is a special field in Typesense and we don’t allow searching on it directly. So you would have to create a new field called say id_search and then store the ID there and use that for search1
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