Ensuring Required Collections at Application Startup
TLDR KS needed a way to ensure required collections are created at application startup. Dima suggested using a script that checks current collections and compares them to a yaml file, and then sending requests to the API, as well as using Typesense PATCH API with "drop": true
to delete fields.
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Jun 19, 2023 (5 months ago)
KS
02:59 PMDima
03:03 PMKS
03:04 PMKS
03:05 PMDima
03:05 PMDima
03:05 PM1
KS
03:07 PMDima
03:08 PMDima
03:09 PM"drop": true
and it will delete a field1
KS
03:10 PMDima
03:11 PM1
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