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Hiding Exact Hits Number in Typesense and Utilizing `out_of` Field

TLDR A sought a way to hide exact hits count in Typesense. Kishore Nallan clarified about the out_of field, its future use, and suggested using found for scrolling. Jason offered a solution to hide the count by modifying the item template.

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May 15, 2021 (33 months ago)

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A

11:23 AM

is there anyway to not show the exact amount of hits in typesense?

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Kishore Nallan

11:24 AM

Are you talking about the out_of field in response?

A

11:32 AM

11:32

A

11:32 AM

i used the algolia typesense adapters and it shows the number of hits

Kishore Nallan

11:32 AM

This is the facet counts?

11:33

Kishore Nallan

11:33 AM

I'm not sure if the facet counts can be disabled. Jason can answer later.

A

11:38 AM

ye this is facet counts. alright thank you

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Stephano

12:12 PM

Is ‘out_of’ the total number of documents in the collection ?

Kishore Nallan

12:13 PM

Correct. It's not documented at the moment. We've not decided if it is a useful number to expose in the response. We've concerns of privacy so will likely not have it in future.

Stephano

12:14 PM

Really useful. I was using it as total to know whether to request more hits for infinite scroll

Kishore Nallan

12:15 PM

Oh cool. The primary worry I have is that reveals the size of your "inventory", which might not be ideal in certain contexts. Perhaps we should have a way to exclude it through the use of a parameter in the scoped API key, which will make it immutable to tampering.

12:16

Kishore Nallan

12:16 PM

Actually, the field to be used for scrolling will be found.

Stephano

12:17 PM

We just check if number per page * page >= total in order to decide whether to make a new request

Kishore Nallan

12:19 PM

But a query might not match all documents in a collection. So, found is the correct number to use.

12:20

Kishore Nallan

12:20 PM

out_of returns total number of documents in collection.

Stephano

12:20 PM

Oh exactly, yeah I see

12:20

Stephano

12:20 PM

Does found apply to *

Kishore Nallan

12:22 PM

Yes, it will return same number as out_of in that case.

Stephano

12:22 PM

Right, thanks man 🙏:skin-tone-3:

Kishore Nallan

12:22 PM

:thumbsup:

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Jason

05:23 PM

A you can customize the display of each item in the refinementList using the template parameter: https://www.algolia.com/doc/api-reference/widgets/refinement-list/js/#widget-param-item

And you can hide the count by removing it from the item template

May 17, 2021 (33 months ago)

A

05:21 AM

thank you!

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