Use of complex filters in Janrain's entity.find

Question

I'm having trouble figuring out how to supply the filter parameter based on nested json objects within the entity schema. I can easily use the outer basic fields like filter="givenName='Taylor'" but to go deeper within the hierarchies of data, I can't find a way to do it.

In addition to that, I'm having trouble figuring out how to supply a filter parameter to just query the records that contain a specific provider such as facebook. The only way I'm seeing is by looking at each json object under "profiles", then "accessCredentials" then "domain".

Another example is when I was trying to use "gender='male'" as a filter. Since gender isn't at the outer level of the schema, this doesn't seem to work. It lives within the Facebook profile, then gender, so I assume the filter needs to be able to specific that key at a lower level or along a path of some sort.

Thanks for any advice!

Answer 1

For doing a few levels deeper in the schema in searches, you can use dot or slash notation.

profiles.profile.quotes.quote = 'Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. - Matt Groening'

or

profiles/profile/quotes/quote = 'wat'

As for gender, you might try

gender = 'male' OR profiles.profile.gender = 'male'