Add to choose language(localization) for search

[KaylonMD]

Hi everyone! I use from documentation https://docs.meilisearch.com/learn/getting_started/quick_start.html#search function .search and get all documents needed, but problem is - need to filter / choose language before search phrases/word. At the moment show only initial locale from strapi, but other languages it puts in massive localizations, where can get documents.

Problem is - when put title from localizations document, meilisearch cannot search this document and give that not found something

[oluademola]

Hello @KaylonMD, Sorry, I'm not sure I completely understand you. Could you please provide more context about your setup? How did you handle the indexing of your documents in different languages? Do you have them separate in different indexes, or do your documents contain fields for each language? If you have configured the languages per index you should be able to select which index to target from the client side.

[KaylonMD]

Hello @KaylonMD, Sorry, I'm not sure I completely understand you. Could you please provide more context about your setup? How did you handle the indexing of your documents in different languages? Do you have them separate in different indexes, or do your documents contain fields for each language? If you have configured the languages per index you should be able to select which index to target from the client side.

At the moment, when i make request from Meilisearch, I get only primary localization documents, const client = new MeiliSearch({
host: MEILISEARCH_URL,
apiKey: apiKey
});
client
.index(selectedIndex.index)
.search(word)
.then((res) => res.hits});
};

But unfortunately, the second language cannot pass, only can see in localizations

( Put url screen https://i.imgur.com/IXgB0Xr.jpeg ) - red underline is documents primary language, but if has translations, put in parameters translations, but cannot find it when search title name in function .search

[KaylonMD]

Hello @KaylonMD, Sorry, I'm not sure I completely understand you. Could you please provide more context about your setup? How did you handle the indexing of your documents in different languages? Do you have them separate in different indexes, or do your documents contain fields for each language? If you have configured the languages per index you should be able to select which index to target from the client side.

just need to get documents from "en" version and "ro" version

[soapwong703]

@oluademola I am having the same problem, it seems entriesQuery: { locale: 'all'} doesn't work exactly like REST API's locale. In meilisearch documents, I see it only stores the 'en' version of entity instead of all locales, therefore the search only searched in 'en' documents.

You can see there are only 12/14 document stored in meilisearch, the extra 2 is in other locales.

[bidoubiwa]

Hey @soapwong703, unfortunately currently it does not seem possible with the plugin. It would require multiple indexation of the same collection and that is not supported yet.

Meanwhile, if you use the localisation plugin you can play around with the locale parameter in the entriesQuery plugin parameter. See here

[BenCherif]

@bidoubiwa any update about this, without localization this plugin is useless when you use multiple locales for your content on strapi

[curquiza]

Hello @BenCherif

Does #915 will fix your problem? If not, any PR are welcome and we will review it when we have some time 😊

[BenCherif]

Hello @BenCherif

Does #915 will fix your problem? If not, any PR are welcome and we will review it when we have some time 😊

i'm not talking about the ui localizations , but i'm talking about retrieve entries with some locale from strapi .Can we add attribute
{..., locale : en, } to meilisearch queries like we do already in strapi .Kind regards