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Default Sorting Field Issue in Typesense Cloud

TLDR Jide needed help with setting "default_sorting_field" in Typesense cloud. Jason clarified that id is restricted as it's used internally by Typesense.

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Jan 16, 2023 (8 months ago)

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Jide

06:17 PM

hi I'm a front end dev taking a stab at some backend work. Currently I'm creating a New Collection in Typesense cloud and it looks like the "default_sorting_field" value has to be snake case. All my documents are camel case. Is there any way to get around this?

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Jason

06:21 PM

> it looks like the “default_sorting_field” value has to be snake case.
Not really… May I know where you’re seeing this?

Jide

06:28 PM

having a default_sorting_field value of id_id works but a value of id does not. Is the value id just restricted?

Jason

06:28 PM

Correct id is a special field that’s used by Typesense internally. So it can’t be set in the schema or the default_sorting_field

06:29

Jason

06:29 PM

But you can send an id in the documents, which is what will then be used by Typesense internally to identify and dedupe documents

Jide

06:32 PM

got it. thanks for the clarification!

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