Enabling asset indexing

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.
 
 ### Changed
 
+- Changed assets serialization to prevent mapping explosion while allowing asset inforamtion to be indexed. [#341](https://github.com/stac-utils/stac-fastapi-elasticsearch-opensearch/pull/341)
+
 ### Fixed
 
 ## [v6.2.1] - 2025-09-02

stac_fastapi/core/stac_fastapi/core/serializers.py

@@ -66,6 +66,10 @@ def stac_to_db(cls, stac_data: stac_types.Item, base_url: str) -> stac_types.Ite
         item_links = resolve_links(stac_data.get("links", []), base_url)
         stac_data["links"] = item_links
 
+        stac_data["assets"] = [
+            {"es_key": k, **v} for k, v in stac_data.get("assets", {}).items()
+        ]
+
         now = now_to_rfc3339_str()
         if "created" not in stac_data["properties"]:
             stac_data["properties"]["created"] = now
@@ -103,7 +107,7 @@ def db_to_stac(cls, item: dict, base_url: str) -> stac_types.Item:
             bbox=item.get("bbox", []),
             properties=item.get("properties", {}),
             links=item_links,
-            assets=item.get("assets", {}),
+            assets={a.pop("es_key"): a for a in item.get("assets", [])},
         )
 
 
@@ -128,6 +132,9 @@ def stac_to_db(
         collection["links"] = resolve_links(
             collection.get("links", []), str(request.base_url)
         )
+        collection["assets"] = [
+            {"es_key": k, **v} for k, v in collection.get("assets", {}).items()
+        ]
         return collection
 
     @classmethod
@@ -174,5 +181,9 @@ def db_to_stac(
             collection_links += resolve_links(original_links, str(request.base_url))
         collection["links"] = collection_links
 
+        collection["assets"] = {
+            a.pop("es_key"): a for a in collection.get("assets", [])
+        }
+
         # Return the stac_types.Collection object
         return stac_types.Collection(**collection)

stac_fastapi/sfeos_helpers/stac_fastapi/sfeos_helpers/mappings.py

@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ class Geometry(Protocol):  # noqa
         "id": {"type": "keyword"},
         "collection": {"type": "keyword"},
         "geometry": {"type": "geo_shape"},
-        "assets": {"type": "object", "enabled": False},
+        "assets": {"type": "object"},
         "links": {"type": "object", "enabled": False},
         "properties": {
             "type": "object",