In TypeSense Cloud, Is there a way to edit the Collection Schema?

We don't have a way to modify the schema at the moment but that's on our backlog. You can just create a new collection and swap to it. The Collection Alias features makes this really easy to do without updating your app configuration: https://typesense.org/docs/0.21.0/api/collection-alias.html

Hi @Kishore Nallan, thank you for your message. I see. I am using Firebase with the Typense extension. In the documentation:

3. Backfilling data (optional)
This extension only syncs data that was created or changed in Firestore, after it was installed. In order to backfill data that already exists in your Firestore collection to your Typesense Collection:
Create a new Firestore collection called typesense_sync through the Firestore UI.
Create a new document with the ID backfill and contents of {trigger: true}
This will trigger the backfill background Cloud function, which will read data from your Firestore collection and create equivalent documents in your Typesense collection

However, there is no way to retrieve the documents from a Firebase collection NOT named ``typesense_sync`` ?

@Loïc typesense_sync is just a way to trigger the backfill. The actual collection name that’s used is the name you entered when installing the extension

Hi @Jason Bosco, ok I will try! In the typesense dart package, is there a

result

object that manipulate the search result Map<String, dynamic>?

Future<Map<String, dynamic>> search(
      Map<String, dynamic> searchParameters) async {
    return await _apicall.get(
      '$_endPoint/search',
      queryParams: searchParameters,
      shouldCacheResult: true,
    );
  }

Hey @Loïc, unfortunately there isn't right now. But providing sound types is something I'm considering to implement in future.

👍 thank you @Harpreet Sangar

You can create an alias later on, point it to an existing collection, and then use that alias in the Firebase extension for the collection name

@Jason Bosco I have a Firebase GeoPoint that I want to store as Geopoint but the Firebase function gives me the error on the screenshot below

{
      "facet": false,
      "index": true,
      "name": "locationGeoCode",
      "optional": false,
      "type": "geopoint"
    },

@Loïc The Firebase geopoint is different from the Typesense geopoint. So in Firestore you'll have to create an additional array field just for Typesense which contains the field in [lat,lng] format and sync that over to Typesense.

@Jason Bosco Got it, thank you 👍

Yup, that's exactly right!

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