insertMany type is always never[]

[jessekrubin]

Describe the bug

When I try to use insertMultiple I ALWAYS get xyz is not assignable to never[]

To Reproduce

Try using insertMultiple and then running tsc. Can make a repro later. Currently at park with dogs.

Expected behavior

Types should infer correctly.

Environment Info

os: windows/ubuntu/rhel
Node: 18.18.1
Orama: 2.0.0-beta4

Affected areas

Data Insertion

Additional context

No response

[rosszurowski]

I just ran into this too. Looking at past issues, it looks like you need to use as const for the typings to work.

const db = await create({
  schema: {
    id: "string",
    title: "string",
    notes: "string",
  } as const, // the as const here is important
})

It looks like it's covered in the Typescript documentation page, but I didn't even notice they had a Typescript page, and instead was just relying on the create docs page.

[jessekrubin]

@rosszurowski that semi-works for me, but I get some weird deviation between the return-type of search and the schema due to the readonlys from the as const. Fixable with some type-gymnastics tho.

[micheleriva]

@rosszurowski good call. We will fix the docs adding TypeScript specifications on other pages 🙏

[jessekrubin]

@micheleriva how can I make orama fuzzier? I am currently testing it out as a replacement for fzf-for-js which fuzzy matches more aggressively

[jacob-8]

@rosszurowski good call. We will fix the docs adding TypeScript specifications on other pages 🙏

Did this ever happen? I actually came across the as const in https://docs.oramasearch.com/open-source/usage/typescript and still didn't realize it was my problem because I recently ran into a "never" issue using Supabase because I did not have strictNullChecks set to true. So that took me down the wrong route to fix things until coming to this issue. Consider mentioning it in the Getting Started, Create, and Insert pages.