Not able to populate all data by Meilisearch pluging using populateEntryRule in my strapi project

Discussed in https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch/discussions/2747

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^{Originally posted by giri943 September 6, 2022} I am trying to integrate meilisearch in my Strapi Project. While integrating and testing meilisearch I found that the plugin is failing to fetch all the data, especially when the data is located inside a deeply nested array. The plugin successfully fetches the data from the first level of nested array, rest of the datas are not being fetched by meilisearch plugin. I have tried using the populateEntryRule on plugin.js file which I found from the meilisearch documentation but still it’s not fetching all the data. When I fire an API call to that particular collection type through Strapi(not through meilisearch) am getting all the data correctly. Here is my particular schema that I am working with:

{
  "kind": "collectionType",
  "collectionName": "investors",
  "info": {
    "singularName": "investor",
    "pluralName": "investors",
    "displayName": "Investor",
    "description": ""
  },
  "options": {
    "draftAndPublish": true
  },
  "pluginOptions": {},
  "attributes": {
    "title": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "slug": {
      "type": "uid",
      "targetField": "title"
    },
    "metaData": {
      "type": "component",
      "repeatable": false,
      "component": "seo.meta-fields"
    },
    "pageSections": {
      "type": "dynamiczone",
      "components": [
        "sections.hero",
        "sections.certification-section",
        "sections.community-section",
        "sections.content-section",
        "sections.home-page-section-2",
        "sections.lm-business-modal-section",
        "sections.lm-evolving-section",
        "sections.lm-leardership-section",
        "sections.milestone-section",
        "sections.mission-section",
        "sections.our-business-section",
        "sections.product-hero-section",
        "sections.statistics-section",
        "sections.team-section",
        "sections.value-section",
        "sections.vision-section",
        "sections.webcast-section",
        "sections.chart-section",
        "sections.key-financials",
        "sections.fixed-deposit",
        "sections.financial-performance"
      ]
    },
    "Accordion": {
      "type": "dynamiczone",
      "components": [
        "elements.no-dropdown",
        "elements.dropdown"
      ]
    }
  }
}

I am having trouble in fetching the data from “pageSection” which has some deeply nested arrays of data. My Meilisearch populateEntryRule plugins.js file

module.exports = {
    meilisearch: {
        config: {
          investor: {
                populateEntryRule:['dynamiczone.pageSections', 'pageSections']
          }
        }
      },
}

Strapi Content type structure:

Strapi API call to a collection

Meilisearch Result

I couldn’t find any related articles anywhere, that’s why I opened a discussion over here. Kindlylook into my problem and any help or suggestion will be highly appreciated.</div>

[bidoubiwa]

Using this setting: https://github.com/meilisearch/strapi-plugin-meilisearch#-entries-query you can add a populate field which contains the rules to fetch your nested objects.

https://docs.strapi.io/developer-docs/latest/developer-resources/database-apis-reference/entity-service/populate.html#basic-populating

[bidoubiwa]

See #580 suggesting more information on populate. Closing as it is resolved 😃