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Identifying Names for Faceted Object Arrays

TLDR TJ inquires about identifying names in facet results for object arrays. Kishore Nallan explains it's not possible, while John points to a relevant GitHub issue.

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TJ

07:39 AM

Hey, say I have an array field of objects like: exampleField: [{name: x, value: y}, {name: z, value: a}...], and I facet by exampleField.value, is there an easy way to identify what exampleField.name each value in the facet result belongs to?

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Kishore Nallan

07:45 AM

👋 That's not possible unfortunately. An array of objects are just squashed into field-wise arrays, and the original mapping information is not kept.

In this case, it just becomes:

"exampleField.name": ["x", "z"]

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John

11:29 AM

This is what we wanted to do as well, made this issue as one potential solution https://github.com/typesense/typesense/issues/943

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