Allow multiple query_by fields to hold same scoring weight, or specify weight per field about typesense HOT 4 CLOSED

@stefangomez Good idea - definitely see this being useful. There are 2 potential ways to achieve this:

1. Allow the weights to be specified in the query_by parameter in the following format: text:2,author:2,description:1
2. Have a separate query_by_weights parameter that sets the respective weights for the fields mentioned in the query_by parameter, e.g. query_by=text,author,description&query_by_weights=2,2,1

No. 2 looks cleaner to me.

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Is this feature still planned?

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@georgiemathews Yes it is! It's just around the corner - should be out in a couple of weeks.

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Just released v0.18.0 with the ability to specify custom weights for fields, using the new query_by_weights parameter: https://github.com/typesense/typesense/releases/tag/v0.18.0.

For eg: query_by_weights: 1,1,2 with query_by: field_a,field_b,field_c will give equal weightage to field_a and field_b, and will give twice the weightage to field_c comparatively.

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