Use different field as id

[sheerun]

In my case each record has only "name" and "url" fields. I'd like name to act as id as it's unique.

Is it possible to configure minisearch so it uses name field and doesn't complain that documents don't have this field?

[lucaong]

Hi @sheerun ! Yes, it’s possible, just pass the idField option:

const miniSearch = new MiniSearch({
  fields: ['name', 'url'],
  idField: 'name'
})

Of course, each document has to have a unique name in this case.

Hope this helps!

[sheerun]

whoops, somehow I missed this in docs, thank you!