fix: Transform the identifier value into a string before hashing it

meilidb-data/Cargo.toml

@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ meilidb-tokenizer = { path = "../meilidb-tokenizer", version = "0.1.0" }
 ordered-float = { version = "1.0.2", features = ["serde"] }
 rocksdb = { version = "0.12.2", default-features = false }
 sdset = "0.3.2"
-serde = { version = "1.0.91", features = ["derive"] }
+serde = { version = "1.0.99", features = ["derive"] }
+serde_json = "1.0.40"
 siphasher = "0.3.0"
 zerocopy = "0.2.2"
 
@@ -29,4 +30,3 @@ branch = "arc-byte-slice"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 tempfile = "3.0.7"
-serde_json = "1.0.39"

meilidb-data/src/serde/extract_document_id.rs

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ use std::hash::{Hash, Hasher};
 
 use meilidb_core::DocumentId;
 use serde::{ser, Serialize};
+use serde_json::Value;
 use siphasher::sip::SipHasher;
 
 use super::{SerializerError, ConvertToString};
@@ -16,7 +17,18 @@ where D: serde::Serialize,
     document.serialize(serializer)
 }
 
-pub fn compute_document_id<T: Hash>(t: &T) -> DocumentId {
+pub fn value_to_string(value: &Value) -> Option<String> {
+    match value {
+        Value::Null => None,
+        Value::Bool(_) => None,
+        Value::Number(value) => Some(value.to_string()),
+        Value::String(value) => Some(value.to_string()),
+        Value::Array(_) => None,
+        Value::Object(_) => None,
+    }
+}
+
+pub fn compute_document_id<H: Hash>(t: H) -> DocumentId {
     let mut s = SipHasher::new();
     t.hash(&mut s);
     let hash = s.finish();
@@ -213,10 +225,11 @@ impl<'a> ser::SerializeMap for ExtractDocumentIdMapSerializer<'a> {
         let key = key.serialize(ConvertToString)?;
 
         if self.identifier == key {
-            // TODO is it possible to have multiple ids?
-            let id = bincode::serialize(value).unwrap();
-            let document_id = compute_document_id(&id);
-            self.document_id = Some(document_id);
+            let value = serde_json::to_string(value).and_then(|s| serde_json::from_str(&s))?;
+            match value_to_string(&value).map(|s| compute_document_id(&s)) {
+                Some(document_id) => self.document_id = Some(document_id),
+                None => return Err(SerializerError::InvalidDocumentIdType),
+            }
         }
 
         Ok(())
@@ -244,10 +257,11 @@ impl<'a> ser::SerializeStruct for ExtractDocumentIdStructSerializer<'a> {
     where T: Serialize,
     {
         if self.identifier == key {
-            // TODO can it be possible to have multiple ids?
-            let id = bincode::serialize(value).unwrap();
-            let document_id = compute_document_id(&id);
-            self.document_id = Some(document_id);
+            let value = serde_json::to_string(value).and_then(|s| serde_json::from_str(&s))?;
+            match value_to_string(&value).map(compute_document_id) {
+                Some(document_id) => self.document_id = Some(document_id),
+                None => return Err(SerializerError::InvalidDocumentIdType),
+            }
         }
 
         Ok(())

meilidb-data/src/serde/mod.rs

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ use std::{fmt, error::Error};
 use meilidb_core::DocumentId;
 use meilidb_schema::SchemaAttr;
 use rmp_serde::encode::Error as RmpError;
+use serde_json::Error as SerdeJsonError;
 use serde::ser;
 
 use crate::number::ParseNumberError;
@@ -35,7 +36,9 @@ use crate::number::ParseNumberError;
 #[derive(Debug)]
 pub enum SerializerError {
     DocumentIdNotFound,
+    InvalidDocumentIdType,
     RmpError(RmpError),
+    SerdeJsonError(SerdeJsonError),
     RocksdbError(rocksdb::Error),
     ParseNumberError(ParseNumberError),
     UnserializableType { type_name: &'static str },
@@ -55,8 +58,12 @@ impl fmt::Display for SerializerError {
         match self {
             SerializerError::DocumentIdNotFound => {
                 write!(f, "serialized document does not have an id according to the schema")
-            }
+            },
+            SerializerError::InvalidDocumentIdType => {
+                write!(f, "document identifier can only be of type string or number")
+            },
             SerializerError::RmpError(e) => write!(f, "rmp serde related error: {}", e),
+            SerializerError::SerdeJsonError(e) => write!(f, "serde json error: {}", e),
             SerializerError::RocksdbError(e) => write!(f, "RocksDB related error: {}", e),
             SerializerError::ParseNumberError(e) => {
                 write!(f, "error while trying to parse a number: {}", e)
@@ -89,6 +96,12 @@ impl From<RmpError> for SerializerError {
     }
 }
 
+impl From<SerdeJsonError> for SerializerError {
+    fn from(error: SerdeJsonError) -> SerializerError {
+        SerializerError::SerdeJsonError(error)
+    }
+}
+
 impl From<rocksdb::Error> for SerializerError {
     fn from(error: rocksdb::Error) -> SerializerError {
         SerializerError::RocksdbError(error)