Does anyone know if the Payload API can return multiple items in one request?

MRL

4 weeks ago

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  jmikrut

  Payload Team

  4 weeks ago

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  ok so there are a few options

  
  

  
  

  short answer, Payload doesn't do anything like that out of the box

  
  

  
  

  but longer answer - you could open up a custom endpoint and use a MongoDB

  aggregate

  query that merges content from multiple collections into a single result set

  
  

  
  

  OR, you could build some type of "search" collection

  
  

  
  

  take a look at hope network's search functionality:

  
  

  
  

  https://hopenetwork.org/
  

  
  

  this site uses a collection called

  Search
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  MRL

  4 weeks ago

  Ok thanks. I will investigate the custom endpoint route with MongoDb.

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  jmikrut

  Payload Team

  4 weeks ago

  and then every collection that we want to search across has an

  afterChange

  hook, that syncs it to the

  search

  collection

  
  

  
  

  so then the frontend of the hope site just queries against the

  search

  collection, and then documents from like 6 collections all get returned

  
  

  
  

  in a very fast / performant way

  
  

  
  

  this is good if you just need a quick solution. but another thing to look into, if you are going to be doing heavy searches, and you need it to scale with thousands of docs, is to use Algolia or similar

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  MRL

  4 weeks ago

  Cool, cheers @jmikrut