quickwit-oss / quickwit-oss/quickwit

[Discussion] Json field usage in UI

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enhancement
Dominant language
Rust
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Description

The JsonField enables Quickwit to be schemaless. While being a huge pro of the indexing experience, it will harden the search XP as the user will not know the available keys.

One solution would be to store keys in a dedicated field so that we could retrieve them in the UI.
Being able to make an aggregation on keys would be very nice too.

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by understanding how Quickwit's JsonField is represented and how the UI currently exposes searchable fields. Define whether the goal is to discover available keys, aggregate on keys, or both, then identify the indexing and UI work needed and establish tests or a demonstrable UI result as the completion criteria.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
frontend, search
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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