Failed syncing nested fields with Strapi plugin

Discussed in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/discussions/2388

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^{Originally posted by pedrogaudencio May 11, 2022} Hi there!

I’m having an issue when I update a collection-type entry that is nested inside a component/single type/collection. Not sure if this case is already referenced but I couldn’t find it anywhere.

Example:

1. Create an Author collection type entry -> Meilisearch plugin creates an Author document;
2. Create an Article collection type entry, add an Author collection type field inside the repeatable component AuthorsList in the Article -> Meilisearch plugin creates an Article document with its nested fields;
3. Update the Author entry -> Meilisearch plugin updates the Author document;
4. Meilisearch plugin does not update the Author entry inside the nested fields in the Article document.

As a workaround, (in this example) I thought of creating an afterUpdate() lifecycle hook in the Author triggering the Article document update by calling the Meilisearch plugin controller. Is there a better way to do this? If not, is there an example to call the document update from the Meilisearch plugin?

Using:

• Meilisearch v0.27.0 docker image
• Strapi v4.1.1
• Meilisearch Strapi Plugin 0.6.2

Thank you! 😃</div>

[pedrogaudencio]

Those suggestions all seem very interesting. Do you know if there’s already something in place?

await meilisearch
  .updateEntriesInMeilisearch({
    contentType: "author",
    entries: [authors],
  })

This was kinda what I was aiming towards with my suggestion of triggering the parent document update by calling the Meilisearch plugin controller. As you say, this is possible using the hooks provided by Strapi and probably the cleanest solution at this point. Although it’s likely that the entry data won’t pass through transformEntry() when we bypass the plugin and call meilisearch.updateEntriesInMeilisearch()…

[bidoubiwa]

I think you can have access to transformEntry by using the strapi API like this:

strapi.config.get('plugin.meilisearch')