How to search within nested objects - vue.js

Question

I have done my research trying to figure out how to achieve what I am describing below, however I had no luck.
In my Algolia index, some records have nested objects.
For example, title and subtitle attributes are of the following format:
title:
{
"en": "English title",
"gr": "Greek title"
}
I would like to execute queries only for a specific subset (in our example "en" or "gr") of these attributes, withoute "exposing" any facet in the UI — language selection would ideally be done “automatically” based on a variable (lang) passed to the Vue component with props. I am using Laravel Scout package with default Vue implementation, as described in documentation here.
My InstantSearch implementation is pretty simple, I am not defining anything specific regarding queries and searchable attributes, I am currently using all the default functionality of Algolia.
<template>
<ais-instant-search
:search-client="searchClient"
index-name="posts_index"
>
<div class="search-box">
<ais-search-box placeholder="Search posts..."></ais-search-box>
</div>
<ais-hits>
<template
slot="item"
slot-scope="{ item }"
>
<div class="list-image">
<img :src="'/images/' + item.image" />
</div>
<div class="list-text">
<h2">
{{ item.title }}
</h2>
<h3>
{{ item.subtitle }}
</h3>
</div>
</template>
</ais-hits>
</ais-instant-search>
</template>
<script>
import algoliasearch from 'algoliasearch/lite';
export default {
data() {
return {
searchClient: algoliasearch(
process.env.ALGOLIA_APP_ID,
process.env.ALGOLIA_SEARCH
),
route: route,
};
},
props: ['lang'],
computed: {
computedItem() {
// computed_item = this.item;
}
}
};
</script>
I would like to somehow pass an option to query “title.en” and “subtitle.en” when variable lang is set to “en”. All this, without the user having to select “title.en” or “subtitle.en” in the UI.
Update
Maybe computed properties is the path to go, however I cannot find how to reference search results/hits attributes (eg item.title) within computed property. It is the code I have commented out.

Answer 1

I think, you can use computed property. Just transform current item according to the current language variable.
new Vue({
template: "<div>{{ computedItem.title }}</div>",
data: {
langFromCookie: "en",
item: {
title: {
en: "Hello",
ru: "Привет"
}
}
},
computed: {
computedItem() {
const item = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(this.item));
for (value in item) {
if (typeof item[value] === "object" && Object.keys(item[value]).includes(this.langFromCookie))
item[value] = item[value][this.langFromCookie];
}
return item;
}
}
}).$mount("#app")
<div id="app"></div>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/vue/2.5.17/vue.js"></script>

Answer 2

If lang variable is available via props, you can check that inside list-text class and return {{title.en}} or {{title.gr}} accordingly by passing a dynamic lang value title[lang] like below
...
<div class="list-text">
<h2>
{{ item.title[lang] }}
</h2>
<h3>
{{ item.subtitle[lang] }}
</h3>
</div>
If you want to make a request according to lang prop when component mounts ,then you can make a request inside mounted() method then query like below
mounted() {
axios.get(`/getSomethingWithLang/:${this.item.title[this.lang]}`)
...
}