Querying Unique Field Values in Typesense
TLDR Sruli asked if Typesense could query unique values in a field. SamHendley clarified that facets could be used for this purpose.
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Jan 09, 2023 (11 months ago)
Sruli
Sruli
10:52 PMHey, not sure if it’s really possible but is there a way for me to query all the different type of values in a given field, for example if I have a collection of books and they each have a topic but there can be 2 books with the same topic and I want to get a list of all the topics, is that something typesense can do or will I need to make another collection for topics?
SamHendley
SamHendley
10:58 PMthat’s what facets are for
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SamHendley
10:59 PMyou can then basically do
facet_by=topic&page_size=0&facet_count=10000Sruli
Sruli
10:59 PMThank you!!
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