Accept NOHL and SORTABLE UNF in FT.CREATE, and report sortable/unf in FT.INFO

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Fixes #1370
Fixes #1371

NOHL and SORTABLE UNF are RediSearch FT.CREATE options that valkey-search rejects, so an index definition carrying either fails to create.

FT.CREATE idx ON HASH PREFIX 1 d: NOHL SCHEMA t TAG
-> Unexpected parameter `NOHL`, expecting `SCHEMA`

FT.CREATE idx ON HASH PREFIX 1 d: SCHEMA sku TAG SORTABLE UNF
-> Invalid field type for field `UNF`: Missing argument

UNF reports the following field when one exists, because the leftover token is read as the next field identifier.

Both are no-ops for valkey-search. No query or sort behavior changes.

NOHL

NOHL declines to store the byte offsets that HIGHLIGHT and SUMMARIZE need. Neither command exists here, so valkey-search already behaves as though NOHL were set on every index — passing it or omitting it is indistinguishable. It is accepted and ignored, storing nothing.

It is deliberately not mapped onto with_offsets. NOOFFSETS drops per-word offsets and would break phrase, SLOP and INORDER queries; RediSearch documents NOHL as implied by NOOFFSETS, not equivalent to it — confirmed by measurement, creating with NOOFFSETS alone reports NOHL as well.

SORTABLE UNF

UNF keeps a sortable field's sort value as the original bytes rather than lowercased. valkey-search keeps no sort side table — ApplySorting compares the stored field value through expr::Compare, byte-wise and without normalization — so raw-byte ordering is already what UNF asks for.

UNF is consumed only when it directly follows SORTABLE. Measured against Redis, that matches: TAG SORTABLE SEPARATOR ;, TEXT SORTABLE NOSTEM and a bare UNF are all rejected there too, so requiring SORTABLE last is correct rather than a limitation.

FT.INFO

Redis reports all three of these as bare tokens with no value — SORTABLE and UNF appended to the attribute entry, and NOHL inside a top-level index_options array. A bare token cannot be read by a generic key/value parser: a client walking the array in twos reads SORTABLE as a key and runs off the end, and with two bare tokens (SORTABLE UNF) the count is even again, so it silently parses as {"SORTABLE": "UNF"}.

This PR does not copy that shape. It follows the convention the attribute reply already uses for CASESENSITIVE and WEIGHT — a pair carrying a value, present whether or not the option was declared:

FT.CREATE products ON HASH PREFIX 1 p: SCHEMA
  sku    TAG     SORTABLE UNF
  brand  TAG     SORTABLE
  colour TAG
  amount NUMERIC SORTABLE
  vec    VECTOR  FLAT 6 TYPE FLOAT32 DIM 2 DISTANCE_METRIC L2

CONFIG SET search.emulate-release 1.3.0
FT.INFO products   ->   attributes:

  sku     ... type TAG      SEPARATOR , CASESENSITIVE 0 size 0   SORTABLE 1  UNF 1
  brand   ... type TAG      SEPARATOR , CASESENSITIVE 0 size 0   SORTABLE 1  UNF 0
  colour  ... type TAG      SEPARATOR , CASESENSITIVE 0 size 0   SORTABLE 0  UNF 0
  amount  ... type NUMERIC  size 0                               SORTABLE 1
  vec     ... type VECTOR   index { ... }

Each is reported only where it can mean something, both rules measured against redis:8 (search 81000):

• SORTABLE is omitted for VECTOR. Redis rejects SORTABLE on a vector field outright (Field 'SORTABLE' does not have a type), so a vector attribute can never carry it.
• UNF is omitted for NUMERIC. UNF suppresses the normalization of a sort value, and a number has none to suppress. Redis does report it there — NUMERIC SORTABLE comes back as ['SORTABLE','UNF'] even when UNF was never written — but the value carries no information, so it is left out rather than echoed.

The flags are recorded on data_model::Attribute. Both RDB save paths already serialize it via Attribute::ToProto, so they survive a reload and reach replicas and cluster peers. Adding the pairs changes reply shape, so they are gated behind search.emulate-release >= 1.3.0, alongside the existing ft_info_score_field gate in the same reply. The FT.CREATE syntax itself is not gated: the command previously failed outright, so there is no prior behavior to preserve.

Nothing is reported for NOHL. Redis puts it in a top-level index_options array that valkey-search does not emit at all. Since HIGHLIGHT and SUMMARIZE do not exist here, valkey-search behaves as though NOHL were set on every index, so the value could never differ between two of them — it would describe the module rather than the index. NOHL is accepted and discarded, storing nothing. Worth adding if highlighting is ever implemented, at which point it becomes meaningful.

Note for #1353 item 3

That item is the inverse of UNF: bare SORTABLE should collate case-insensitively and today does not. Fixing it makes UNF change sorting, at which point ApplySorting must consult the flag this PR now stores — otherwise SORTABLE UNF would silently start sorting case-insensitively.

Testing

Unit:

• testing/ft_create_parser_test.cc, which had no SORTABLE coverage at all before this: UNF last, UNF followed by another field, SORTABLE alone, NOHL accepted, NOHL away from SCHEMA and repeated, bare UNF rejected. Every case asserts the parsed flags, including the ~40 pre-existing ones, which now also prove the parser does not set them spuriously.
• testing/ft_info_test.cc expectations carry the new pairs, with the legacy-shape transform dropping them so both sides of the gate stay derived from one string.

Integration:

• test_ft_create.py — both options on one index, a tag query confirming NOHL left offsets alone, SORTBY returning raw-byte order, bare UNF rejected. The sort data is a and B rather than A and b, so the assertion distinguishes raw-byte ordering from case-insensitive collation instead of holding under both.
• test_ft_info_sortable.py — values reflect what was declared, UNF absent for NUMERIC and both absent for VECTOR, nothing emitted below emulate-release 1.3.0, every attribute entry asserted to have an even length so no bare token can creep in, and the flags surviving DEBUG RELOAD.

Every compatibility claim above was measured against redis:8 (search 81000, the 1.3 target per COMPATIBILITY.md) and cross-checked on redis/redis-stack-server (search 21020); the two agree on every case here.

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FT.CREATE compatibility

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Command syntax and parser support src/commands/ft.create.json, src/commands/ft_create_parser.cc, testing/ft_create_parser_test.cc, integration/test_ft_create.py, docs/commands/ft.create.md	FT.CREATE accepts and ignores NOHL. SORTABLE UNF is parsed and standalone UNF is rejected.
Schema and attribute persistence src/index_schema.proto, src/index_schema.h, src/index_schema.cc, src/attribute.h	Schema attributes store sortable and unf flags during index creation and RDB restoration.
FT.INFO reporting and compatibility tests src/attribute.cc, docs/commands/ft.info.md, integration/test_ft_info_sortable.py	FT.INFO reports compatibility-gated sortable and unf pairs. Tests cover legacy behavior and reload persistence.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant ParseFTCreateArgs
  participant IndexSchema
  participant Attribute
  participant FTINFO
  Client->>ParseFTCreateArgs: Create index with NOHL and SORTABLE UNF
  ParseFTCreateArgs->>IndexSchema: Pass sortable and unf flags
  IndexSchema->>Attribute: Store flags
  FTINFO->>Attribute: Request attribute information
  Attribute-->>FTINFO: Return compatibility-gated flags

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Priority: ➖ Normal

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to b3a66

Invalid standalone UNF syntax can silently create the wrong schema, and transferring an index with these flags to an older release can lose its metadata. These compatibility defects should be resolved before merge.

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❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check	⚠️ Warning	The linked issues require syntax compatibility for NOHL and SORTABLE UNF [#1370, #1371]. FT.INFO reporting, compatibility-release gating, protobuf persistence, reload behavior, and their dedicat…	Keep the parser changes, related documentation, and acceptance and rejection tests. Move FT.INFO reporting, compatibility-release gating, persistence, reload behavior, and their dedicated documentation and tests to a separately scoped cha…
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 42.86% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 21 functions across 9 files. (2 skipped: …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	For #1370, ParseFTCreateArgs consumes NOHL before SCHEMA and leaves highlighting behavior unchanged. Tests cover accepted NOHL. For #1371, the parser consumes UNF only after SORTABLE, stor…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely summarizes the main changes: accepting NOHL and SORTABLE UNF in FT.CREATE and reporting sortable/unf in FT.INFO.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description is directly related to the changeset. It explains the syntax changes, FT.INFO behavior, compatibility decisions, persistence, and test coverage.

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Explanation

The linked issues require syntax compatibility for NOHL and SORTABLE UNF [#1370, #1371]. FT.INFO reporting, compatibility-release gating, protobuf persistence, reload behavior, and their dedicated documentation and tests are not required to accept and ignore the syntax. These changes extend the behavior beyond the linked issue scope.

Resolution

Keep the parser changes, related documentation, and acceptance and rejection tests. Move FT.INFO reporting, compatibility-release gating, persistence, reload behavior, and their dedicated documentation and tests to a separately scoped change.

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Confidence Score: 5/5

Safe to merge; there are no outstanding blocking issues.

Summary

• FT.INFO compatibility coverage now verifies both the release 1.3.0 response format and the earlier legacy format.
• The previous fixed-response expectation issue is no longer outstanding.

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@allenss-amazon i have kept ft.info changes related to these clauses here Aksha1812/valkey-search@dev/compat-unf-nohl...dev/ft-info-sortable-flags . to unblock P1 item we can add these clauses so that they don't throw unrecongnized errors . But we also have to report these configurations through ft.info but that seemed out of scope for this PR and could also be added later before GA .

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Document the index_options response field.

FT.INFO now returns index_options at search.emulate-release >= 1.3.0. It can contain NOOFFSETS and NOHL, including NOHL when NOOFFSETS is set. Add this top-level response entry so the documented reply shape matches the implementation.

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Require release 1.3.0 when an attribute has sortable or unf.

IndexSchema::GetMinVersion does not inspect data_model::Attribute.sortable or data_model::Attribute.unf, so a schema that uses either field can report kRelease10. A 1.0 peer can then load the protobuf, reconstruct runtime attributes without these fields, and omit them when it serializes the schema again.

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