Related Model Collections - Mappable Data and ElasticSearch Datatypes about explorer HOT 4 OPEN

Small followup, I did confirm I could control the mapping from the root model:

/**
     * Get the indexable data array for the model.
     *
     * @return array<string, mixed>
     */
    public function toSearchableArray(): array
    {
        $array = $this->toArray();

        $array['candidate_skills'] = $this->candidateSkills->map(function ($item) {
            return $item->toSearchableArray();
        });

        return $array;
    }

Its not quite as elegant as I'd like but I recognize that might be a scout limitation. Still if there is a way to do it more per-model rather than the root model I'd love to know it.

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Thank you for the elaborate description, really! 👏

I dove into the source and this is the culprit:
https://github.com/Jeroen-G/Explorer/blob/master/src%2FApplication%2FOperations%2FBulk%2FBulkUpdateOperation.php#L62

It does nothing to see what happens in the root, it expects a plain array in return. Apparently you are the first to encounter this or be bothered by it😁

Unless you know of a smart solution I think you will have to do everything as you showed in the root toSearchableArray.

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Thanks @Jeroen-G for confirming I wasn't missing anything!

I guess that explains why it doesn't work. For now I've gone ahead and set up my root document to call the toSearchableArray on child relations as needed.

I did want to follow up on one thing though: the nested object field mappings are also not being used to create the index in Elastic.

For example, in the code I give above with something like a Candidate, CandidateHasSkill, and Skill object, In the Candidate model, I can use mappableAs to define the field types I want in Elastic. I then also define candidate_has_skill as a nested field.

How do tell Elastic what the field types for candidate_has_skill are to be? it is doing automatically right now and getting it a bit wrong. For example its using integer or long for IDs when per Elastic's docs it really should be keyword.

https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/keyword.html

Is there a way to define a nested object's field mappings?

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There is a bit on nested mappings here: https://jeroen-g.github.io/Explorer/mapping.html which might help you!

I think this could work:

return [
    'id' => 'keyword',
    'candidate_skills' => [
        'name' => 'keyword'
    ]
];

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