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Querying Documents Using Wildcards and Array Lengths

TLDR Orion asks about querying documents with wildcards or array lengths. Jason requests clarification and examples from Orion to better understand the question.

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May 21, 2022 (17 months ago)

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Orion

09:23 PM

Can’t find info on this after browsing the docs and GitHub so asking here. Is there some way to use wildcards when querying by a specific field? As in, any document with some value for the field I’m querying will match. My use case here is a knowledgebase where some documents are tagged, and I need to search for (all or some of) those documents.

Another solution would be a way to filter by array length, or something to that effect.

May 22, 2022 (17 months ago)

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Jason

05:21 PM

I don't fully understand the question. Could you share a few sample documents along with an example of a query (pseudo code) you'd want to use to fetch them?

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