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LosManos
LosManos

Reputation: 7692

Set new field in azure search to default value

I am using Azure search and when I add a new field it becomes null.
Is there a way to have a default value?

PUT {{servicename}}/indexes/{{indexname}}?api-version=2019-05-06
Content-Type: application/json   
api-key: {{adminkey}}

{  
  "fields": [
    {  
      "name": "rid",
      "type": "Edm.String",
      "searchable": false,
      "filterable": false,
      "sortable": false,
      "facetable": false,
      "key": true
    },   
    {
      "name": "NewField",
      "type": "Edm.Boolean"
    }
}

and search result is

{
    "@odata.context": "https://whatever.search.windows.net/indexes('indexname')/$metadata#docs(*)",
    "value": [
        {
            "@search.score": 0.55735236,
            "rid": "asdfasdf",
            "Email": null
        }
    ]
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 740

Answers (1)

Gaurav Mantri
Gaurav Mantri

Reputation: 136196

Is there a way to have a default value?

Based on the documentation, no.

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Once a new field is added, you will have to update existing documents manually to set a value for that added field. As mentioned in the documentation, you can use merge as @search.action to only update the newly added fields.

Upvotes: 1

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