is a random integer on the document still "the way...
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em1nos
06/22/2022, 7:28 PMis a random integer on the document still "the way to go" to fetch random documents? - no "random" sorting or better workaround?
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Jason Bosco
06/22/2022, 7:34 PMYup, that's still the way to go
Jason Bosco
06/24/2022, 7:01 PM@em1nos Out of curiosity, may I know what your use case is, to fetch random documents?
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em1nos
06/27/2022, 9:22 PM@Jason Bosco I have an ecommerce type site (product/price comparison) with different product categories. On the homepage I'm displaying a 6 product grid (+ swiper to load more) of "random popular products from some category below this price, or with these features". There are a few reasons why I'd like to use Typesense to fetch these products and not the database. Mostly easy advanced filtering on attributes etc. Would it be possible to add a "random" sort order to Typesense?
em1nos
06/27/2022, 9:26 PMThe random integer field solution feels super awkward to me so I'm just loading 250 products sorted by popularity and then limiting the number of products to smaller number before displaying the grid.
em1nos
06/27/2022, 9:28 PMIt works for me in this case because I need "the most popular ones" anyway in most cases.
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Jason Bosco
06/28/2022, 5:08 PMCould you open a Github issue describing this use case? We've had asks for this in passing, but not one that's documented yet in an issue.