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Faceting issue with Products Collections in Typesense

TLDR Carl was unable to facet on a string array. Kishore Nallan and Jason advised ensuring facet counts were being returned and offered to assist in troubleshooting. Issue resolved upon Carl realizing no data was saved in the database.

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Carl

06:17 AM

Hey 🙂 I have a facet defined as: {"name": "collections", "type": "string[]", "facet": true }, which is not returning any data. Is possible to actually facet on a string[]?

The use case here, is that a product could be associated with a variety of "collections", so it needs to be an array. If I can't facet on an array, how would I work around this?

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Kishore Nallan

06:18 AM

👋 Yes you can facet on arrays. Can you please post a minimally reproduceable example?

Carl

06:19 AM

Hmm okay, I will continue looking into it then. Thanks for the speedy response

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Jason

06:51 AM

Carl When you say it does not return any data, do you mean no facet counts are returned? If so, in addition to defining a field as a facet in the schema, you’d need to also set the facet_by search parameter

Carl

06:52 AM

Yeh it returns no data:

Kishore Nallan

06:53 AM

If you can post the schema and the actual query, I can quickly 👀 if there is anything obvious missing.

Carl

06:53 AM

It does so on both the multi_search (e.g. using instantsearch adapter) and by manually querying with facet_by.

I just created a new container, new index and sent some data but it worked fine. Going to try recreate the full index in the same environment to see if it just magicaly fixes

Kishore Nallan

06:54 AM

👍 Happy to investigate if you can re-create the issue consistently.

Carl

06:54 AM

Index is created by:
<REMOVED>

06:55

Carl

06:55 AM

Query I just tested with:

<https://the-instance.com/collections/products/documents/search?q=red&amp;query_by=product_name&amp;facet_by=collections>

06:55

Carl

06:55 AM

I'll see though if spinning up a new instance and a full reindex seems to fix it first too 🙂

Kishore Nallan

06:56 AM

Yeah that looks fine to me.

Carl

08:23 AM

The problem is that we don't have anything saved int he database for collections 😅 So all looks good from typesense side. Thanks for the quick help and have a great day 👍

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