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Storing Collection's Description in TypeSense

TLDR David asked about storing collection's descriptions in TypeSense. Jason clarified that it wasn't possible and such data must be maintained in the primary datastore.

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Jul 26, 2023 (2 months ago)

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David

10:31 PM

Heyo! Quick question. Is there a current way to store a collection’s “description” in TypeSense? We’re thinking about perhaps creating another collection with the details, or using a separate database to store the details.

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Jason

10:33 PM

Could you give me an example of a collection and a description? Curious to understand the use-case

Jul 27, 2023 (2 months ago)

David

01:12 AM

At a high level, we were hoping that when we retrieve a collection, or collections, we would be able to get some metadata associated with the collection versus having to manage that somewhere else

Jason

01:13 AM

Typesense doesn’t have this ability… so you would have to maintain this information in your primary datastore

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