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Solving Bool Field Filtering Issue in Typesense

TLDR Guillermo was struggling with filtering by a bool field in Typesense. Jason assisted, and realized that Guillermo forgot to add the relevant field in the firebase-typesense extension configuration.

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Guillermo

07:06 PM

Hello! is this the correct way of filtering by a bool field? its not working

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Jason

07:07 PM

Could you post the output of that method?

07:08

Jason

07:08 PM

what gets finally stored in searchParameters and gets passed to the Typesense client?

Guillermo

07:08 PM

this is the schema, I was wondering that maybe its because its optional

    {
      "facet": true,
      "index": true,
      "infix": false,
      "locale": "",
      "name": "isFeatured",
      "optional": true,
      "sort": false,
      "type": "bool"
    },

07:10

Guillermo

07:10 PM

this is the output:

{q: *, query_by: name, filter_by: isFeatured: true, sort_by: geolocation(-34.6213324,-58.3796079):asc, per_page: 10, page: 1}

Jason

07:11 PM

This should work… Just to be sure, could you check if isFeatured:true works? (No space before true)

07:12

Jason

07:12 PM

Also, when you say “it’s not working”, in the results that are returned, do you see documents with isFeatured with all types of values?

Guillermo

07:13 PM

It looks like the documents are not indexing with the ‘isFeatured’ field so its probably a problem with the schema definition

07:13

Guillermo

07:13 PM

I get no results

Jason

07:14 PM

When you remove that filter, do you get results with documents where isFeatured:true?

Guillermo

07:16 PM

Well yes, but the documents dont appear to have that field when saving in Typesense

07:16

Guillermo

07:16 PM

Im 100% sure that specific document has that isFeatured field

07:16

Guillermo

07:16 PM

in Firebase

Jason

07:17 PM

Wondering if it’s a UI issue… Could you open the browser’s dev console, open the network tab, then do a search in the UI, then look for a network request to “multi_search”. Could you look at the results of that API call, and expand results -> hits -> document and check if the field shows up there?

07:18

Jason

07:18 PM

If you can share your cluster ID I can take a quick look as well

Guillermo

07:21 PM

The field does not show up there, let me re-sync the firebase-typesense extension

07:22

Guillermo

07:22 PM

No luck re-syncing, I sent you privately the cluster ID

07:27

Guillermo

07:27 PM

SOLVED! thank you Jason .
The problem was that I forgot to add that field in the configuration of the firebase-typesense extension 😅

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