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Troubles with Flattening Nested Field in Index

TLDR User Mojan had problems flattening a nested field in an index. User Jason advised to use 'versions.doc_description' instead of 'doc_description' in the search query.

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Sep 12, 2023 (2 weeks ago)

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Mojan

06:11 PM

Hey guys I am trying to flatten a nested field in my index. The data structure is as below :

{
 ...
'versions' : [{ 'doc_description': string]
}

I have tried doing this :

{
                'name': 'versions.doc_description',
                'type': 'string[]',
                'facet': True
            },

but keeps getting the error shown in the screenshot (not found).

Does anyone have an idea how I should go about this ?

$Image 1 for Hey guys I am trying to flatten a nested field in my index. The data structure is as below : <pre><code>{ ... 'versions' : [{ 'doc_description': string] }</code></pre> I have tried doing this : <pre><code>{ 'name': 'versions.doc_description', 'type': 'string[]', 'facet': True },</code></pre> but keeps getting the error shown in the screenshot (not found). Does anyone have an idea how I should go about this ?$

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Jason

06:16 PM

The schema is correct, but it sounds like the search query is using doc_description instead of versions.doc_description

Mojan

06:19 PM

Thank you, Jason !

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