How best to return unindexed data for each match (as well as the ID)?

[nextapps-de]

How best to return unindexed data for each match (as well as the ID)?

[samdutton]

Wow! That was quick :). Thanks for the heads-up — I'll try it out.

[ts-thomas]

Thanks for the praise. Indexing complex objects is one of the most top todos on my list. I'm sure that this feature comes shortly. In the meanwhile you can use a workaround for this purpose.

Assuming you have an array of objects:

var data = [{
    id: 294578,
    title: "Movie Title",
    year: "2019",
    genre: "Adventure"
},{
    id: 193754,
    title: "Movie Title",
    year: "2019",
    genre: "Adventure"
}];

and you intend to search these data by movie title, the workaround looks like:

var index = new FlexSearch();

data.forEach(function(movie, i){
    index.add(i, movie.title);
});

also split index by genres is conceivable #13

When searching, map the results with the initial data:

var results = index.search("title").map(function(i){
    return data[i];
});

[samdutton]

Thanks for the quick response!

I'll keep an eye out for the complex-objects implementation.

Your workaround is pretty much what I came up with :) though I used an object with values (objects) keyed by ID — rather than an array.

I'll check out splitting indexes as well.

👍

[ts-thomas]

@samdutton Hi Sam, this is now published: https://github.com/nextapps-de/flexsearch#docs