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Handling Empty Searches in Typesense

TLDR Ahmed inquired about Typesense's handling of empty searches. Jason explained the default behavior and suggested controlling the ranking using sort_by.

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Ahmed

04:48 PM

Hello, how does Typesense with empty searches? Does it simply return the entire collection sorted by date added? Is there any way I can alter how it deals with empty searches?

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Jason

04:51 PM

By default, for * queries, Typesense will sort by the default sorting field if one is mentioned in the collection, otherwise it will fall back to the document insertion order

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Jason

04:52 PM

You can control the ranking using sort_by

04:52

Jason

04:52 PM

More info here: https://typesense.org/docs/guide/ranking-and-relevance.html#strict-ordering-or-hard-sorting

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