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Merging Results of Multi-Search Queries: Workarounds and Future Features

TLDR Julian wanted to merge results from two similar collections. Kishore Nallan confirmed it's a feature that might be implemented but hasn't been prioritised. Both Julian and robert plan to use client-side solutions for now.

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Aug 31, 2022 (14 months ago)

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Julian

08:55 AM

Hi crowd. I was wondering if it is somehow possible to merge the results of a multi-search request on two schema-homogeneous collections? The reason I want to do this is the sorting and pagination becomes a painful issue otherwise. Thanks in advance! ✌

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Kishore Nallan

09:26 AM

It's not possible to do this apart from doing this client side.

Julian

09:28 AM

I was afraid so. Is it because I am doing things not they way you guys intended it for or is this a missing feature scenario?

Kishore Nallan

09:43 AM

It's just a missing feature scenario. We could do this I think.

Julian

09:44 AM

That'd be great actually! Can I help to kick this off?

Kishore Nallan

09:53 AM

Looks like we already have a feature request, created earlier: https://github.com/typesense/typesense/issues/381

We've not yet prioritized it in our roadmap.

Julian

09:56 AM

Ah, alright. I will join the thread 👍

10:04

Julian

10:04 AM

Shoutout to the community for an upvote on this issue: https://github.com/typesense/typesense/issues/381 😇

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robert

12:45 PM

I'm running into a similar issue but with multiple searches on the same collection which I wanna aggregate for best match. I'm just doing this client side for now w/ text match sorting (results are small so pagination isn't an issue but could become issue in future)

Julian

02:51 PM

robert Thanks for getting on board here. I probably will have to go down the very same road. Any pitfalls or caveats you can maybe warn me of? 🙂

robert

02:54 PM

not really. i was using instantsearch in my react app but now just mostly did custom instantsearch stuff leveraging typesense client. the client is so fast i haven't seen any issues really in adding some client side filtering. my documents are relatively small too

Julian

02:55 PM

Well, looks like it's just up to me then 🙂 Thanks. It still would be great to see the feature landing on the roadmap.

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