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Creating Schema for Nested Objects in JSON

TLDR Greg asked about creating schemas for nested objects in JSON. Jason provided information about indexing nested fields in Typesense v0.24.0. PneuViz requested details about replacing the 'highlights' field with 'highlight' in the new version.

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Sep 23, 2022 (13 months ago)

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Greg

08:31 PM

Question: How would I create the schema for nested objects? This is my JSON:

{
    "contributors": {
        "contributor1": {
            "bio": "Some bio",
            "firstName": "John",
            "lastName": "Doe",
            "type": "author"
        },
        "contributor2": {
            "bio": "Another bio",
            "firstName": "Jane",
            "lastName": "Joe",
            "type": "editor"
        },
        "contributor3": {
            "bio": "An even better bio",
            "firstName": "Billy",
            "lastName": "Jean",
            "type": "influencer"
        }
    }
}

08:31

Greg

08:31 PM

There can be many contributors so it is not a fixed list.

08:33

Greg

08:33 PM

I could also do it as an array

{
    "contributors": [{
            "bio": "Some bio",
            "firstName": "John",
            "lastName": "Doe",
            "type": "author"
        },
        {
            "bio": "Another bio",
            "firstName": "Jane",
            "lastName": "Joe",
            "type": "editor"
        },
        {
            "bio": "An even better bio",
            "firstName": "Billy",
            "lastName": "Jean",
            "type": "influencer"
        }
    ]

}

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Jason

08:35 PM

Side note: Nested objects are only supported in the latest RC build of v0.24.0.

If you’re running 0.24.0, here’s how to index nested fields: https://github.com/typesense/typesense/issues/227#issuecomment-1211666924

Greg

08:38 PM

Jason, I am using Typesense Cloud. I assume that version is not available?

Jason

08:43 PM

We can upgrade you from our side to that RC build. Could you DM me your cluster ID?

Oct 10, 2022 (12 months ago)

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PneuViz

06:30 PM

Jason I noticed that the new version doesn't use highlights anymore. The new highlight feature doesn't show the highlight in the snippets like they did in 0.24.0rc4. I'm working with typescript so I would like to get a little more details on how to support this change.

Jason

08:21 PM

PneuViz In the new version, we’ve introduced a new field called highlight which will include highlights for all fields, including nested fields. There should still be a field called highlights (plural) which lists all highlights for non-nested fields.

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