Specific Collection Backfill and Schema Config in Firebase Extension
TLDR Loic asked Jason about backfilling specific collections with the Firebase Extension and configuring collection schemas. The latter explained current limitations and gave advices about handling attributes for search/filtering, storage, and return.
Apr 27, 2022 (18 months ago)
Loic
05:58 PMWith the Firebase Extension (https://github.com/typesense/firestore-typesense-search#step-3%EF%B8%8F%E2%83%A3--optional-backfill-existing-data) can we backfill a specific collection and not all at once?
Jason
06:20 PMLoic
06:24 PMLoic
06:30 PMid"fields": [
{
"name": "id",
"type": "string",
"index": true
},
…Is this an expected behavior? :thinking_face:
Jason
06:30 PMLoic
06:31 PMLoic
06:50 PMIf I know that I will query by
FieldA but never by FieldB , what should be the difference in"fields": [
{
"name": "FieldA",
"type": "string",
"index": true
},{
"name": "FieldB",
"type": "string",
"index": true
},
…Jason
06:50 PMJason
06:51 PMLoic
06:51 PMLoic
06:51 PMFieldBLoic
06:51 PMJason
06:52 PMJason
06:52 PMIf you want to sync all fields over from Firestore, you want to leave the fields configuration in the extension blank
Loic
06:53 PMFieldA , FieldB and FieldCI would like to have in typesense
FieldA & FieldB storedQuery by
FieldA only and return FieldA & FieldB in the resultsJason
06:54 PMFieldA,FieldB in the list of fields.Then in Typesense, only add
FieldA to the schemaLoic
06:55 PM
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