Is it possible to get a random document?

abdullahasad72536 months ago

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  denolfe

  12 months ago

  Not out of the box, but you could add a custom endpoint to your collection and do some custom logic in it.

  https://payloadcms.com/docs/rest-api/overview#custom-endpoints
  
  

  Then use

  req.payload

  with the local API, get totalDoc count, then do something creative with pagination/limit.

  
  
  

  Maybe

  limit: 1

  and

  page: randomIntInTotalDocRange
  
  

  Is it possible to get a random document?

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  notchr11 months ago

  So the batches themselves should be de-duped?

  
  
  

  You could make a feature request on the repository to add that!

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  nomad.dev7 months ago

  Is this still the best way to do it? 🙂 Shouldn't something like

  sort: 'RANDOM()',

  be a nice thing?

  
  
  

  You're right Let's try that! 💪