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Non-Indexable Fields Enforced as Optional: Reasoning and Revisions

TLDR Sai asked about the enforcement of non-indexable fields being optional. Kishore Nallan informed them of the unclear historical basis and requested they create a tracking issue on GitHub for investigation.

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Sep 14, 2022 (15 months ago)

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Sai

11:46 AM

I see that there is an enforcement that non-indexable fields must be optional. Is there a reason behind this?

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Kishore Nallan

11:48 AM

To be honest, I was wondering about this myself a few weeks ago. I'm not sure how we ended up with that restriction. I think it's because of the use case that originally shaped this feature.

Sai

11:50 AM

Got it. Would be nice to have a required non-indexable field. This is not a blocker but it helps in rejecting requests which deviate from schema.

Kishore Nallan

11:52 AM

Agreed, can you please create an issue for GH to track? I'll see if I can find some time to look into the historical reason for this decision.

Sai

11:55 AM

Sure. I’ll create an issue to track.

Thank you.

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