Storing Non-Indexed Document Fields in Typesense
TLDR Thomas asked about unindexed, stored fields. Jason explained that unindexed fields can be stored and returned if the document is a match. Andrew added a limitation about nested fields.
Jason
Wed, 23 Feb 2022 17:20:20 UTCYup, you can just leave fields out of the schema definition when creating the collection, and then send any additional fields when importing documents
Jason
Wed, 23 Feb 2022 17:21:20 UTCOnly fields mentioned in the schema are indexed in memory. Others are stored on disk and returned if the document is a match
Jason
Wed, 23 Feb 2022 17:22:05 UTCAlso, these additional non-indexed fields can be nested btw if needed
Jason
Wed, 23 Feb 2022 17:22:20 UTCOnly indexed fields have the nested limitation
Thomas
Wed, 23 Feb 2022 17:22:36 UTCPerfect!!
Andrew
Wed, 23 Feb 2022 17:56:11 UTCThere's one thing I'd like to add if you're planning to have nested fields: the include/exclude feature only works on the top level, so if you have "data" : { "small": "foo", "big": "bar bar"} you can include or exclude "data" but not "data.small" or "data.big". This causes us a few problems, so I wanted to mention iz
Andrew
Wed, 23 Feb 2022 17:59:22 UTC(other than that, we totally love typesense!)
Thomas
Wed, 23 Feb 2022 18:19:44 UTCThanks for the warning!
Thomas
Wed, 23 Feb 2022 18:19:49 UTCWe love it too, superb!
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Thomas
Wed, 23 Feb 2022 17:19:33 UTCIs it possible to have document fields that aren't indexed, but still stored on typesense?