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Troubleshooting Typesense Node Embedding Field Error after Upgrade

TLDR Denny was having an error with the embedding field after upgrading a typesense node. Jason revealed that this was a bug in the v0.25.0 version. They suggested upgrading to 0.25.1.rc4 to fix the issue, which Denny did successfully.

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Aug 27, 2023 (1 month ago)

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Denny

02:26 PM

Hi - I just upgraded my typesense node to 0.25.0, and created a new database with an embedding float[] field. However, when trying to query (using typesense-python 0.16 and curl), I’m getting this error: {“results”:[{“code”:400,“error”:“Field embedding should be a string or a string array.“}]}

Same as the issue below, however not sure what the solution is.

https://github.com/typesense/typesense/issues/1172

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Jason

02:40 PM

Could you follow the exact set of curl commands and post the output here?

02:40

Jason

02:40 PM

Also could you do a GET /debug and verify if you’re indeed running 0.25?

Denny

03:25 PM

{"state":1,"version":"0.25.0"}

03:26

Denny

03:26 PM

curl "https://{XXXXXXX}." \
        -X POST \
        -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
        -H "X-TYPESENSE-API-KEY: {API_KEY}" \
        -d '{
          "searches": [
            {
              "collection": "products_v1",
              "q": "clothes",
              "query_by": "embedding",
              "prefix": false,
              "exclude_fields": "embedding"
            }
          ]
        }'

03:26

Denny

03:26 PM

Output:

{"results":[{"code":400,"error":"Field `embedding` should be a string or a string array."}]}

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Kishore Nallan

04:10 PM

Are you trying this on Mac OS?

Denny

04:27 PM

yes

Jason

09:04 PM

Ah I see what's happening. v0.25.0 has a bug where if an auto-embedding field was added to an existing collection via a schema change, then the auto-embedding doesn't kick-in.

We've fixed this issue in 0.25.1.rc4. Could you upgrade to this and try again?

(You might have to drop this field and re-add it back after the upgrade)

Aug 28, 2023 (1 month ago)

Denny

05:19 AM

I noticed that the API went offline during the update. Is this normal?

Kishore Nallan

05:26 AM

Yes single node cluster needs to be upgraded by taking it offline. HA cluster is rotated node by node so won't affect requests.

Denny

11:26 AM

Upgrading to 0.25.1rc4 fixed the issue, thanks!

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