Hi everyone. Looking into replacing Elasticsearch with Typesense for some parts of our software and am currently trying to figure out (actually at the end of my own ideas) how to reflect a filesystem so that a search can be limited/filtered to a certain directory/path and its children (recursive). Is that a possible use-case?

I think the easiest way is to store all path combinations (e.g.

/

,

/path

,

/path/to

) in a field and then use it in array filter_by: https://typesense.org/docs/0.24.1/api/search.html#filter-parameters

You can configure Typesense to index special characters by using the

symbols_to_index

configuration during collection creation.

curl -k "<http://localhost:8108/collections>" -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" \                                                                                                                        
      -H "X-TYPESENSE-API-KEY: ${TYPESENSE_API_KEY}" -d '{
        "name": "docs",
        "fields": [        
          {"name": "title", "type": "string" },
          {"name": "points", "type": "int32" }
        ], "symbols_to_index": ["/"]
      }'

Thanks guys. The array approach seems like a good fit for this.