I'm in the proccess of trying to replace one Algol...
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em1nos
07/10/2021, 7:23 PMI'm in the proccess of trying to replace one Algolia part of my app with Typesense.
Is there way to index objects / multi-dimensional arrays? or would I need to flatten them?
em1nos
07/10/2021, 7:25 PMfor example:
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attributes: {
'bar': 'baz',
'something': 'else',
'some_number': 123
}em1nos
07/10/2021, 7:26 PMthis works in algolia
em1nos
07/10/2021, 7:27 PMmessage has been deleted
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Jason Bosco
07/10/2021, 7:31 PMTypesense doesn’t yet support nested fields, we’re tracking it here: https://github.com/typesense/typesense/issues/227
So you’d have to flatten it for now
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em1nos
07/10/2021, 7:33 PMyep, just saw that!
em1nos
07/10/2021, 7:36 PMso, if the
attributesem1nos
07/10/2021, 7:36 PMis there a way to setup auto schema detection just for the fields starting with "attribute."?
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Jason Bosco
07/10/2021, 7:43 PMYeah, yeah could you do
name: attribute\.*, type: auto
Jason Bosco
07/10/2021, 7:43 PMName is just a regex
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em1nos
07/10/2021, 7:45 PMok, thank you .. I don't think that's in the docs, btw :)
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Jason Bosco
07/10/2021, 8:11 PMOh! Will add that in.
Jason Bosco
07/11/2021, 3:04 AMBtw, I made a mistake in the regex above. It should be attribute\..* (two periods)