Search Data

Catalyst Search enables you to search and retrieve data records from the Catalyst Data Store. You can execute a search query using the executeSearchQuery() method for searching for a particular pattern of data. The search reference used in the code snippet is the component instance.

Create a JSON Configuration

The following code snippet creates a JSON object that contains the attributes of the pattern to be searched for, in the indexed columns of the individual tables.

//Create a config object with the search term, table and indexed columns 
let config = { search: 'santh\*',search_table_columns: 
{ 
SampleTable: ['SearchIndexedColumn'], Users: ['SearchTest'] 
} };

Execute Search Query

The JSON object created in the previous section is passed as a parameter to the executeSearchQuery() method which returns a promise. The promise returned will be resolved to an object which is a JSON.

//Execute the search query by passing the configuration 
let search = app.search(); 
let searchPromise = search.executeSearchQuery(config); 
searchPromise.then(searchResult => 
{ console.log(searchResult); 
});

A sample response that you will receive is shown below. The response is the same for both versions of Node.js.

Node.js

{
AlienCity: [
{
  CREATORID: "2136000000006003",
  MODIFIEDTIME: "2021-08-13 13:49:19:475",
  CityName: "Dallas",
  CREATEDTIME: "2021-08-13 13:49:19:475",
  ROWID: "2136000000008508"
}
]
}