I am using the

TypesenseInstantSearchAdapter

, and it has been a while since I set this up I notice my code:

function renderSearch(searchType) {
			if (search) {
				search.dispose();
			}

			let queryBy;

			if (searchType === 'semantic') {
				queryBy = 'embedding';
			} else if (searchType === 'keyword') {
				queryBy = 'Field1,Field2,Field3,Field4';
			} else {
				queryBy = 'Field1,Field2,Field3,Field4,embedding';
			}

			const typesenseInstantsearchAdapter =
				new TypesenseInstantSearchAdapter({
					server: TYPESENSE_SERVER_CONFIG,
					additionalSearchParameters: {
						query_by: queryBy,
						exclude_fields:
							'embedding,Field1,Field2,Field3,Field4',
						prefix: false,
					},
				});

			const searchClient = typesenseInstantsearchAdapter.searchClient;
...
...

I am not sure anymore why I did

exclude_fields

at all. Miracoulously the search works, but when I read this code, I am confused why it does 🤣 As I understand it I effectively tell it to search by fields I then explicitly exclude later 🤔

Emebedding field has no use for display and fetching that will be a bit slow since a lot of network transfer will happen. So you are right in searching on it but excluding it from the response.

Got that, this is not the exclude from query, it excludes from response, as what I can access later in the

hit

?

Yes