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Difficulty in Searching Schema Returns No Results

TLDR Robert cannot search anything in a schema they have defined and populated with data. Kishore Nallan asks for a reproducible example.

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Aug 24, 2021 (27 months ago)

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Robert

12:01 PM

Hi there. We defined a schema like this:

{
  name: 'collections',
  fields: [
    {
      name: 'collection_name',
      type: 'string[]',
      facet: true,
    },
    {
      name: 'id',
      type: 'string',
      facet: false,
    },
  ],
}

I’ve populated it with data.
And when i try to search anything like:

{
  q: 'a',
  query_by: 'collection_name',
  num_typos: 0,
}

or any other letter, i get no results. Do you have any idea why?

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Kishore Nallan

12:11 PM

id is a special field so should not be part of schema. In the next version we have added some guard for this.

Robert

12:20 PM

Ok, but thats not the problem we have. Id is not the problem. If we transform the field from string[] to string, everything works as intended.

Kishore Nallan

12:45 PM

Can you please post a minimal reproduceable example? Does it happen even with a couple of simple records?

03:04

Kishore Nallan

03:04 PM

Just tried with a simple example and it works for me. If you can give me a full reproduceable example, I will be happy to dig into it.

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