Add attributesToRecieve as an param

[aaronschweig]

Hey guys, first of all thanks for the awesome work you provided!

I have a little question: As described in your Documentation there is an option to specify which attributes to receive from a query. I tried to configure it, but sadly it isn't considered in the transformToMeiliSearchParams-Function

https://github.com/meilisearch/instant-meilisearch/blob/master/src/index.js#L16-L22

Was there a specific reason to not include this? If not, is there a possibility to add this in a future release?

Thanks!

[curquiza]

Hello @aaronschweig! Thanks for paying attention to this kind of detail!

What is exactly your usecase? Do you use an InstantSearch widget/option that allows you to define the attributes you want to retrieve? 🙂

[aaronschweig]

Thanks for your quick answer!

I use the ais-configure Widget to further configure the parameters sent to MeiliSearch. It successfully worked for setting filters. But as i tried setting the attributesToRetrieve Property it doesn't appear in the request sent to the server 😄

I am sort of trying to use these attributes as a way to achieve the same things which are possible with GraphQL, so that i can only retrieve the properties i need, instead of getting the whole document 😉

[curquiza]

Thanks for your detailed explanation, it helped me! I fix this issue in this PR #138! 😉

[aysark]

I'm facing a similar issue. I'm using vanilla js (instantsearch.js) and i'm not able to configure parameters like filters-- i tried using: instantsearch.widgets.configure(searchParameters: object); but it doesn't seem to be doing anything, i think because i'm using addWidgets?

[curquiza]

Hello @aysark! I'm not sure this is linked to this attributesToRecieve issue. Can you open another issue and detail how you use the configure widget so that I can fix the bug if it is one? 🙂

[aysark]

@curquiza thanks for the response--- but i actually figured it out, so there is no issue:

search.addWidgets([
		instantsearch.widgets.configure({
			filters: 'isFeatured = true'
		}),
	]);