Querying nested-docs

David

3 weeks ago

What is the recommended way of querying nested-docs when you know the path?

Given the following paths:

/parent-page
/parent-page/child-page
/parent-page/child-page/grandchild-page

/api/pages?where[breadcrumbs.url][equals]=/parent-page/child-page

This query returns both the child-page document, and the grandchild-page document ...

I'm having trouble figuring out how to retrieve only the page that matches this path exactly. I am temporarily using a hidden auto-generated field, that takes the last breadcrumb and stores it's

url

into a

path

field at the document root ... so I can query

where[path][equals]=/parent-page/child-page

but this seems awkward, and I'm assuming there's a proper way to query nested-docs?

jacobsfletch
Payload Team
3 weeks ago
That url probably fails because the forward slashes in your
where
query are not encoded, which would look like this:
/api/pages?where[breadcrumbs.url][equals]=%2Fparent-page%2Fchild-page

But this may match on multiple docs instead of just one, because the breadcrumb may appear across more than one document, especially within the same tree.

You may want to query by
slug
then find the document whose
last
breadcrumb matches your url
David
3 weeks ago
thanks - I think that helped. I just added the slug to the query and that seems to have resolved it ...

I now have something like this ...
```
?where[breadcrumbs.url][equals]=/new-page/child-page/grandchild-page&where[slug][equals]=grandchild-page
```
The URL does get encoded by the browser before sending, I'm just showing the decoded version for readability.

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