Capability to search in nested arrays of objects

[ziaulrehman40]

{
  isbn: '9781597226769',
  title: 'The Great Gatsby',
  authors: [
    {
        name: 'F. Scott Fitzgerald'
    },
    {
        name: 'James D'
    }
  ],
  tags: ['book', 'inspirational']
}

Allows to search in deeply nested arrays with syntax suggested in #47 , i.e: ['authors', '[]', 'name'] for above example.

Solves #47 and #77 .

PS: If there is anything we can improve in this PR, i am happy to do that. One thing i know is that I could probably make change in existing getNestedFieldValue function instead of making a new getNestedFieldValues function. But that seemed to have far more consequences and we needed this support ASAP.

[gaberger]

Is there a reason the nested search is not upstreamed to master?

[BurnNoticeSpy]

Can this please be merged????!!! How can i use this fix in the mean time? I don't know what to do to update from the original package...

[BurnNoticeSpy]

Got it installed. Thanks @ziaulrehman40.

Is there a way of returning the data closer to the match? I have a large and complex set of json to work with that has many levels of array nestings, and when a match is currently found, it returns data too far up and i don't know where it came from.

[ziaulrehman40]

@BurnNoticeSpy Good to know you got it working.
But its been years on this, i don't recall properly, you will have to dig a bit i guess.

[Pushparaj2021]

HI @ziaulrehman40, @BurnNoticeSpy , @bvaughn ,

I am not able to search for a nested array of Objects, Tried @ziaulrehman40 approach with no success.

authors: [
{
name: 'F. Scott Fitzgerald',
age: 20,
},
{
name: 'James D',
age: 21,
}
],

search.addIndex(['authors','[]','name'])

request your help to get this resolved.