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Get Settings | Ruby API Client V1 (Deprecated)

This version of the Ruby API client has been deprecated in favor of the latest version of the Ruby API client.

Required API Key: any key with the settings ACL
Method signature 
index.get_settings()

See code examples

About this method

Get the settings of an index.

You can find the list of settings in the Settings Parameters page.

Examples

Retrieve settings for an index

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$settings = $index->getSettings();
var_dump($settings);

Parameters

requestOptions
type: key/value mapping
default: No request options
Optional

A mapping of request options to send along with the request.

Response

In this section we document the JSON response returned by the API. Each language will encapsulate this response inside objects specific to the language and/or the implementation. So the actual type in your language might differ from what is documented.

JSON format

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{
  "minWordSizefor1Typo": 4,
  "minWordSizefor2Typos": 8,
  "hitsPerPage": 20,
  "maxValuesPerFacet": 100,
  "searchableAttributes": [
    "title",
    "description",
    "author_name"
  ],
  "numericAttributesToIndex": null,
  "attributesToRetrieve": null,
  "unretrievableAttributes": null,
  "optionalWords": null,
  "attributesForFaceting": null,
  "attributesToSnippet": null,
  "attributesToHighlight": null,
  "paginationLimitedTo": 1000,
  "attributeForDistinct": null,
  "exactOnSingleWordQuery": "attribute",
  "ranking": [
    "typo",
    "geo",
    "words",
    "filters",
    "proximity",
    "attribute",
    "exact",
    "custom"
  ],
  "customRanking": null,
  "separatorsToIndex": "",
  "removeWordsIfNoResults": "none",
  "queryType": "prefixLast",
  "highlightPreTag": "<em>",
  "highlightPostTag": "<\/em>",
  "snippetEllipsisText": "",
  "alternativesAsExact": [
    "ignorePlurals",
    "singleWordSynonym"
  ]
}

This example of response contains a non exhaustive list of index settings that can be returned. See the full list.

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