Search.PerformSearch in Knowledge Center 12

I am using the API documentation for Tridion docs 13, but I am using Knowledge Center 12. About Search.PerformSearch, it says that results are no longer cached and the caller has to manage retrieving results in chunks. I'm guessing that what I am seeing is the old behavior.

If I request 0 hits, it returns the number of hits, without the results. But, if I request 1000, it returns the first 1000, over and over, rather than retrieving the next chunk.

If I request all of the hits, it returns them all in that call, e.g. PerformSearch(query, 3214, out result), returns 3214 hits.

How can I retrieve results in chunks? Or, can I?

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Mark Novembrino over 5 years ago

As Raf described, there's no way -- using the API alone -- to chunk the results (though you can chunk the subsequent requests for metadata). If you suspect the results will be limited (the 3,214 you used in your example), I would just get the results for everything. However, I have had use cases where I expect large results from a search (in the hundreds of thousands). For these use cases, I use a query based on the CREATED-ON or MODIFIED-ON date-times, and run run my query by a given set of dates (for example, one month at a time). This allows for a certain sense of enforced chunking. My code makes iterative calls to the search function to collect the results for each date-time span.
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Mark Novembrino over 5 years ago

As Raf described, there's no way -- using the API alone -- to chunk the results (though you can chunk the subsequent requests for metadata). If you suspect the results will be limited (the 3,214 you used in your example), I would just get the results for everything. However, I have had use cases where I expect large results from a search (in the hundreds of thousands). For these use cases, I use a query based on the CREATED-ON or MODIFIED-ON date-times, and run run my query by a given set of dates (for example, one month at a time). This allows for a certain sense of enforced chunking. My code makes iterative calls to the search function to collect the results for each date-time span.
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Kendall Shaw over 5 years ago in reply to Mark Novembrino

Yes, I'm worried about large result sets. The documentation for PerformSearch says "The tool which is executing this function is responsible for caching the query and for example requesting more hits if the previous maximum number of hits has been met."

How does one request more hits, as it says?

Or, is it not possible? Then something like guessing date ranges may or may not limit results to an appropriate size, whatever that is.
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Kendall Shaw over 5 years ago in reply to Kendall Shaw

I'm still hoping to find an interpretation of "requesting more hits", and if that implies, from a single query string. But, I'm taking the responses to mean there is no alternative to losing data from a query, or creating results sets that are too large.

So, for now, I've written a crawler to gather the data that my query was meant to (very slowly).
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Mark Novembrino over 5 years ago in reply to Kendall Shaw

Hi, Kendall. Not sure if the question was directed to me or to Raf. I don't know what "requesting more hits" means. I've built my searches the same way as you -- basically a crawler, in my case based on MODIFIED-ON or CREATED-ON values. I didn't see any other way to do it.
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Raf Snijders over 5 years ago in reply to Kendall Shaw

Hi Kendall,

Unfortunately the statement ‘Requesting more hits’ means that you rerun your existing query with the max hits to return parameter set to a higher number.

So this will return the higher number of hits and you only need to visualize the hits from your previous threshold onwards. So in the samples provided above it would be like.

PerformSearch(query, 1000, out result) -> result contains metadata for 1 – 1000
Just visualize all results in your list.

PerformSearch(query, 2000, out result) -> result contains metadata 1 – 2000
ONLY visualize results from entry 1001 to 2000.

There is no other way to mimic the pagination/requesting more hits at this point in time.
You might want to add this feature request (better support for paginated search results) to the SDL Tridion Docs Idea forum (community.sdl.com/.../).

Kind Regards,

Raf
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