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Using Typesense with Firebase Subcollections

TLDR Janick asked how to use Typesense with Firebase subcollections. Jason suggested flattening the collection and adding the sub-collection ID as an attribute. Alexander added info on permissions.

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Apr 06, 2022 (17 months ago)

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Janick

01:00 PM

Is there an example on how I can use Typesense with Firebase Subcollections?

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Jason

01:50 PM

The extension does not handle sub-collections. So you would have to add the sub-collection ID as an attribute inside each document in a flattened collection and sync that to Typesense

01:51

Jason

01:51 PM

So if you have something like users/<user_id>/profile you would convert that to user_profiles and have user_id as an attribute inside each document

Janick

02:53 PM

Ok, will do it that way. Thank you 👌

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Alexander

05:00 PM

Janick You can do permissions like that too. viewable_by_group=test,admin,user

Janick

05:01 PM

Yes I think so, I did the following:

05:02

Janick

05:02 PM

So you can achieve this with
category:= [Running Shoes, Men, Sneaker]

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