how do i enable nested fields via ruby sdk like ty...
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weiklr
12/12/2024, 2:03 AMhow do i enable nested fields via ruby sdk like typesense-rails?
weiklr
12/12/2024, 2:22 AMi tried to do this with typesense rails:
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typesense auto_remove: false, index_name: Emp, per_page: 20, enabled_nested_fields:true do
[DEFINE attributes]
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[5] pry(main)> Claims::Policy.reindex!
Typesense::Error::RequestMalformed: Type `object` or `object[]` can be used only when nested fields are enabled by setting` enable_nested_fields` to true.j
Jason Bosco
12/12/2024, 3:23 AMLooks like we don't support that in typesense-rails
Jason Bosco
12/12/2024, 3:23 AMI would recommend using the ruby SDK (which is actively maintained) to create collection
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weiklr
12/12/2024, 3:23 AMoooh
weiklr
12/12/2024, 3:24 AMhow do we do that with ruby sdk then
weiklr
12/12/2024, 3:24 AMbecause we are using rails, and our index linked to t he model right now
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Jason Bosco
12/12/2024, 3:24 AMThe Ruby tab here has an example: https://typesense.org/docs/27.1/api/collections.html#with-pre-defined-schema
Jason Bosco
12/12/2024, 3:24 AMWhere it has "default_sorting_field", you can add enable_nested_field at the same level
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weiklr
12/12/2024, 3:27 AMso the team has no plans to make typesense-rails support this option?
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Jason Bosco
12/12/2024, 3:27 AMNot in the near term. We might do a full rewrite of the rails integration sometime next year
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weiklr
12/12/2024, 3:35 AMok
weiklr
12/12/2024, 3:37 AMso this setting has to be enabled at the time we create an collection right
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Jason Bosco
12/12/2024, 3:37 AMThat's correct
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weiklr
12/12/2024, 3:37 AMand if i have an existing collection, it means i have to recreate the collection and reindex?
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Jason Bosco
12/12/2024, 3:38 AMUnfortunately yes
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weiklr
12/12/2024, 3:38 AMicic
weiklr
12/12/2024, 9:21 AMjust 1 more question, i understand that typesense-rails gem has a dependency on the ruby typesense client.
if there are any updates to typesense client like deprecating functions that typesense rails might be using, will you at least update typsense-rails to support the replacement functions at the very least?
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Jason Bosco
12/12/2024, 5:05 PMWe've never had to fully deprecate a method in any of our SDKs, so this should be very rare.
But in case we do have to do it, and we don't yet have another rewrite of the rails gem, then yes we'll update the current one to make it doesn't get affected by the deprecation
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weiklr
12/16/2024, 6:34 AMthanks Jason for the reassurance!
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