Recursive category search

hellboy124124last year

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  ysionelast year

  Hi, sounds like max depth should help with that

  
  https://payloadcms.com/docs/production/preventing-abuse#max-depth
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  hellboy124124last year

  Hey, in what sense would that help? Right now, in a rather hack-y way I added a new endpoint to the categories called /hierarchy, which I then get on the frontend, and once I am in a category, I just send that category + all of it's children with it, but it's not really optimal, so I'm curous to how I would be able to optimise that a bit

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  jacobsfletch

  last year

  You’d need to use the

  in

  operator for your query and send an array of category ids like this:

  { category: { in: [123, 456] }}
  

  
  

  To easily get a list of ids within your category tree, you could install the official nested docs plugin and enable it on your category collection

  
  

  
  

  This will generate a

  breadcrumbs

  array on each category, this will enable you to query on the top level breadcrumb to get all categories within that hierarchy