Request to add Bitwise Operations

[Calemy]

It would be very advantageous to have bitwise operations on filtering like mysql or mongodb. It would give a lot of new options to store data. I personally use it myself and would really like to see that option being added to meilisearch. Didn't see any thread mentioning this before.

[gmourier]

Hi @Mxnuuel 👋

Thanks for your feedback.

Can you share with us a use case and one/two examples of using bitwise operations? It will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

[Calemy]

Following code is from a personal project of mine

Here the enum created depending on the modes (0-3) and gets safed in the database

Here i would retrieve the data via the Bitoperator to check if the mode given over the search url fits one result.

Hope that showes my personal usecase well enough!
Would make my life a lot easier than to store the array since i want to add multiple mode search support.

[gmourier]

Thanks, @Mxnuuel 👋

This is not a priority for Meilisearch at this time.

The discussion remains open so other users could express their needs for the bitwise operator.