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Stephan-v
Stephan-v

Reputation: 20329

Algolia keeps casting tmy data to a string

I have been succesful in uploading my data to algolia using laravel. My create method looks like this:

Beer::firstOrCreate([
    'name' => $beer['title'],
    'description' => $beer['description'],
    'path' => '/uploads/gall/' . $filename,
    'brewery_id' => '',
    'abv' => $abv
]);

It gathers data from an api and works perfectly, except for the abv value. It needs to be a numeric type in algolia but whenever I check it in algolia it is a string.

Even when I force it to a float or int by using:

(float)$abv

I still end up with a string in my Algolia database. Funny enough the primary id for this record that is being auto incremented is not a string and looks fine in the algolia database.

To implement algolia in laravel I used the laravel helper in my model:

// Send new records to the algolia database
use AlgoliaEloquentTrait;

I hope somebody can maybe give me slight hint of what I could be doing wrong.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 106

Answers (1)

Syed Shoaib Abidi
Syed Shoaib Abidi

Reputation: 2366

I am assuming that the data type of 'abv' inside your database is float and not string, if this is the case then try using floatval($abv). Your code would be something like:

Beer::firstOrCreate([
    'name' => $beer['title'],
    'description' => $beer['description'],
    'path' => '/uploads/gall/' . $filename,
    'brewery_id' => '',
    'abv' => floatval($abv)
]);

Cheers,,

Upvotes: 1

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