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JSON Error with Empty Arrays in Embedded Field

TLDR Gustavo reported an issue with Typesense returning an error for empty array fields in an embedded field. Jason acknowledged the issue but no solution was provided.

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Jun 13, 2023 (3 months ago)

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Gustavo

10:10 PM

Jason Confirming another issue I mentioned previously: I have a collection with an embedding field that uses 2 array fields in from. When I create a document where both arrays are empty, Typesense returns an error saying Unexpected token in JSON at position 14.

10:11

Gustavo

10:11 PM

I'm using the JS SDK and this is the logged error.

10:12

Gustavo

10:12 PM

These are the relevant fields from the collection schema:

    {
      "facet": false,
      "index": true,
      "infix": false,
      "locale": "",
      "name": "segments",
      "optional": false,
      "sort": false,
      "type": "string[]"
    },
    {
      "facet": false,
      "index": true,
      "infix": false,
      "locale": "",
      "name": "topics",
      "optional": false,
      "sort": false,
      "type": "string[]"
    },
    {
      "embed": {
        "from": [
          "segments",
          "topics"
        ],
        "model_config": {
          "api_key": "sk-************************************************",
          "model_name": "openai/text-embedding-ada-002"
        }
      },
      "facet": false,
      "index": true,
      "infix": false,
      "locale": "",
      "name": "embedding",
      "num_dim": 1536,
      "optional": false,
      "sort": false,
      "type": "float[]"
    },

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Jason

10:12 PM

Got it, thank you for reporting this

Gustavo

10:13 PM

To reproduce, try to create a document with { segments: [], topics: [] }.

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