is there a way to supply multiple filter_by arguments? I'm looking at https://typesense.org/docs/0.24.1/api/search.html#filter-parameters , but there isn't any example of that.

You can use any complex expressions in filter_by. Eg:

filter_by: field1:=a && field2:=b

I see. let me try that. It would be good to have an example of this in the docs.

It’s documented under this table: https://typesense.org/docs/0.24.1/api/search.html#filter-parameters Under “Multiple Conditions”

I saw that. But, I think having an example with the full query params, is what I was looking for.

Ok will update this snippet right on top to include more parameters as examples: https://typesense.org/docs/0.24.1/api/search.html#search

is there a way to pass these arguments as JSON? My list of arguments is getting long and cumbersome

Yeah the multi-search endpoint supports JSON: https://typesense.org/docs/0.24.1/api/federated-multi-search.html

and it would take these as well? exclude_fields, highlight_fields, per_page, etc.?

Yup, any search parameters

cool, let me try that. Should simplify.

I have an interesting use case and looking at multisearch [although just working on the idea now] I have a search query [free text], example Operations Manager Filters: employment-type = ‘full-time’, job-type=‘remote’, country = ‘Germany’ these are all facets with counts on them. Naturally when you pick a filter - example full time, the count for all other employment-types is set to 0. I need to be able to show the count for part-time aswell even though you clicked on ‘full-time’, also other filters now would reflect the total count, example, job-type now has only 10 full-time jobs that are of job-type = remote. The idea is to send another query to get facet counts using existing query + filters, except for the ones you’re active on, example on the employment-type. This query would look like this: search: Operations Manager, Filters: job-type = ‘remote’, country = ‘Germany’ You see I purposely didn’t include the ‘employment-type’ filter, this way it would me facet counts for full-time and part time.

Yup, that’s the exact approach you want to take

but to improve the response time these can be done in one http request?

Correct, that’s the multi_search endpoint

awesome

That example runs on a cluster that has a few other indices as well - 32GB RAM, 4vCPUs, SDN (in Oregon, Frankfurt, Mumbai)

got it 😄

Yup, even 0.5GB RAM should be sufficient

awesome

This stumped me -- the

query_by

parameter is outside the JSON, while all the rest of them are within the JSON. Why?

That’s just an example of how you can set parameters common to all searches as query parameters. And you can override individual search parameters inside the JSON

So, query_by can be inside the JSON as well?

Correct

Hmm... maybe I missed it. Would be good to have a full example of all the possible parameters / keys possible in a JSON request to TS.

You can use any of the search parameters listed here, inside a multi_search request: https://typesense.org/docs/0.24.1/api/search.html#search-parameters

Yeah, there's reference. And there are full examples. I think it would be good to expand the documentation with lots of examples.