Wildcard doesn't work on facets, if disjunctiveFacets are declared

[kokliKo]

If I do

var helper = algoliasearchHelper(client, 'indexName', {
  facets: '*',  // or   facets: ['*'],
  disjunctiveFacets: ['brand']
});

I only retrieve the facet "brand". Since I passed the wildcard to facets, I'd like to retrieve all facets, but only have the "brand" as a disjunctive facet.

This bug is only existing when a disjunctiveFacet is passed.

[bobylito]

Hey @kokliKo thanks for the bug, I'll look into it ASAP. Just for my information, why can't you enumerate the facets? Do you want brand to be both disjunctive and conjunctive?

[kokliKo]

Thanks!

• "Why can't you enumerate the facets" -> I'm not sure exactly why they can't on their side
• "brand" should be disjunctive only IMO

[kokliKo]

Hey @bobylito, have you had time to look at this one?

[bobylito]

Not yet.

[bobylito]

Following up on some of our offline conversations with @kokliKo:

Ok so if we dumb down what the requirements are, this would give us:

• make wildcard / * usable on conjunctive facets with facets: '*' (no need for an array here)
• other facet won't benefit from the wildcard
• any facet definition that are defined as another kind of facet will be considered not conjunctive

Some cons about that are that:

• checks that test if a conjunctive facet is defined will be virtually disabled making mistakes more likely to happen (like refining of a typoed facet name)
• API is not symmetrical
• all the possible facets will be downloaded

In this conditions that seems to be doable but it is still not trivial. I don't think I'll have the bandwidth to handle it right away but I'll make sure to add it to the next release that contains new features (after the release of react-instantsearch)

[bobylito]

This feature is low priority. Will close for now. Let me know if it's a blocker.

[nelsieborja]

@bobylito Any chance to make this possible coz I also came across the same requirement 2 weeks back and was trying to find a way how to do this. The reason why we need to make it wildcard is that we have 2 websites which share same codebase and these websites is using different facets. So we need to make it somehow dynamic instead of enumerating all the facets for each website

[bobylito]

Thanks @nelsieborja for your feedback. As I said, it could be possible but with some limitations. I will sync up with the JS team at Algolia to see how can we manage to prioritize this feature.

[nelsieborja]

@bobylito Thanks for considering this. Was able to find a quick and possible adjustment in the code to achieve the said requirement. So you can add this feature in your own time ;)

[mapolonio]

Hi, I'm trying to retrieve all the facets of the result set by querying with

{
  facets: ['*'],
  ...
}

I'm not even setting a value for disjunctiveFacets and still getting a result with an empty array in the facets key. Is this supported?

According to this: https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/searching/faceting/?language=javascript#retrieving-facets it should work.

[Haroenv]

Hey @mapolonio, could you open a new issue with a codepen for reproduction please?

[mapolonio]

@Haroenv here it is https://github.com/algolia/algoliasearch-helper-js/issues/607