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Typesense Non-String Field Query Workarounds

TLDR Carl seeks advice on querying non-string fields in Typesense. Kishore Nallan suggests using a string version, and Jason proposes the string* data type. Carl is considering these options.

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Jan 21, 2022 (22 months ago)

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Carl

08:48 AM

Hey guys 🙂 Do any of you know if this would be possible (in the current release) at all? Query by non-string fields: https://github.com/typesense/typesense/issues/490

08:50

Carl

08:50 AM

We'd like to avoid the need of parsing in a string as an int on the consumer side.

One workaround we think could work, is to have some top level properties which are solely used for searching on. Then have some kind of "payload" property to store the contents in the correct data form.

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Kishore Nallan

10:43 AM

Only string type can be queried upon. If you need to do that for a numerical field, you need to have a string version as well.

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Jason

02:11 PM

There’s also the string* data type which will automatically convert the int to string when storing in Typesense

Jan 24, 2022 (21 months ago)

Carl

09:14 AM

Cheers guys, will have a look into the string* , otherwise will go with the workaround I mentioned

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