Term facet with nested list

Andrey Mihalkov

Vote:

Hello, we have a problem with getting facet from list of nested objects.

We need to store list of nested objects and retrieve unique values for them. It seems that TermsFacetFor function is perfect for this purpose.

According to the documentation I've added nested convension in my initialization module:

SearchClient.Instance.Conventions.NestedConventions.ForType().Add(x => x.Makes);

I made index rebuild and after that I tried to retrieve term using following code:

SearchClient.Instance
                .Search()
                .TermsFacetFor(x => x.Makes, x => x.Make)
                .GetResult();

But term facet does`t contain any values, through index contains some values.
We use Episerver.Find 12.3.1.0, this feature should work for this version. We believe that we missed something so any help will be appreciated.

#176889

Edited, Mar 29, 2017 10:58

Per Magne Skuseth

Vote:

Try using .ForInstancesOf<> instead of ForType<> (and the reindex). How do you retrieve the facets?

#176901

Mar 29, 2017 13:58

Andrey Mihalkov

Vote:

We tried it with .ForInstancesOf<>, but result is still empty

SearchClient.Instance.Conventions.NestedConventions.ForInstancesOf<SearchResultItem>().Add(x => x.Makes);

We are retrieving facets with following code:

var facet = SearchClient.Instance
.Search<SearchResultItem>()
.TermsFacetFor(x => x.Makes, x => x.Make)
.GetResult();

return facet.TermsFacetFor(x => x.Makes, x => x.Make).Select(x => x.Term);

#176902

Edited, Mar 29, 2017 14:39

Per Magne Skuseth

Vote:

I don't see why your code should not work. Is "Makes" the actual property name, or just an example? If it's an extension method, you'll have to remember to include it via conventions

#176907

Mar 29, 2017 15:54

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Term facet with nested list