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Moving from Algolia to Typesense: Questions and Answers

TLDR Juan sought advice from Kishore Nallan about moving from Algolia to Typesense, handling MultiSearch, setting parameters, checking imported documents, and a specific syntax query.

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Feb 07, 2022 (21 months ago)
Juan
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Juan
10:33 AM
Hi guys! My company has decided to move to Typesense, we are currently using Algolia, and I will be the Developer taking care of this move. Is this the correct channel to ask technical questions?
Kishore Nallan
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Kishore Nallan
10:34 AM
Hi Juan ๐Ÿ‘‹ yes. Happy to answer your questions.
Juan
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Juan
10:43 AM
Hi Kishore, thanks!

If i were to perform a MultiSearch, would there be any way to set the amount of hits to return and also, if it was possible, how would I use "pages"? I see on the responses that there is the key page.
Kishore Nallan
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Kishore Nallan
10:44 AM
Yes, you can set a per_page and page parameters for each search query in the multi_search request.
10:46
Kishore Nallan
10:46 AM
See the multi_search example here: https://typesense.org/docs/0.22.2/api/documents.html#federated-multi-search

In this example you see two different q parameters being sent to two different collections. Likewise you can send any parameter.
Juan
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Juan
10:47 AM
I see! All the parameters listed here https://typesense.org/docs/0.22.2/api/documents.html#search-parameters , even if they are in different "sections", they all would go in the "common parameters" object?
Kishore Nallan
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Kishore Nallan
10:49 AM
You can set both common parameters in the query string, and as well as collection-specific query parameters in the object.
10:51
Kishore Nallan
10:51 AM
Sections are just there for convenience, all of them go into the same object.

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Juan
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Juan
10:52 AM
Thank you very much! For now everything is clear
Kishore Nallan
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Kishore Nallan
10:52 AM
๐Ÿ‘
Feb 08, 2022 (21 months ago)
Juan
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Juan
02:20 PM
Hello again, Kishore. Checking the result of a multisearch with the following parameters: per_page: 1 :
[
  {
    facet_counts: [],
    found: 2,
    hits: [ [Object] ],
    out_of: 2,
    page: 1,
    request_params: { collection_name: 'dev_users', per_page: 1, q: 'Xh4H' },
    search_time_ms: 0
  },
  {
    facet_counts: [],
    found: 0,
    hits: [],
    out_of: 0,
    page: 1,
    request_params: { collection_name: 'dev_machines', per_page: 1, q: 'Xh4H' },
    search_time_ms: 0
  }
]

I would like to know if its possible to know if pagination is possible, currently the only way that i think its possible is by calculating the length of hits, checking out_of and also checking the current page. Is there any simpler way?
Kishore Nallan
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Kishore Nallan
02:56 PM
That's the way to know. Checking "found" value against page * per_page.
Juan
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Juan
03:33 PM
Thank you :thumbsup:
Feb 15, 2022 (21 months ago)
Juan
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Juan
09:53 AM
Is there any way to know how many documents were imported?
typesense.collections(environment + '_' + collection).documents().import(records, { action: 'upsert' });
Kishore Nallan
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Kishore Nallan
09:54 AM
The response will have 1 line for each doc imported, outlining the result of that document's import. You can check to see the status of each document.
Juan
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Juan
10:01 AM
a boolean i believe?
10:05
Juan
10:05 AM
in case one fails, how does the result look like? does it tell you which object you tried to index so that we try to re-index?
10:06
Juan
10:06 AM
in other words, if we are indexing 100 at the same time, and we only have 99 successful, how do we know which one was the one that failed?
Kishore Nallan
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Kishore Nallan
10:27 AM
When you index 100 documents, the response will have 100 lines in the same order.
10:28
Kishore Nallan
10:28 AM
See this section of the documentation for the details.
Mar 04, 2022 (20 months ago)
Juan
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Juan
01:01 PM
thanks ๐Ÿ™‚

BTW, wanted to check if the syntax is correct here:
im performing a multi search in different collections with this syntax: (pic 1)
and im filtering by name, but im receiving a result that doesnt match at all (ch4pdemo)

Wanted to check if im doing anything wrong, thanks
Mar 05, 2022 (20 months ago)
Kishore Nallan
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Kishore Nallan
03:34 AM
What version of Typesense server are you using?