I appreciate any and all help/tips to nudge me in the right direction. We are using Episerver 11.20.

We recently installed the Content Search API for the benefit of a mobile app dev team. However, there is an issue with HTML tags getting returned by the API in property fields, when we would prefer to discard them.

I checked some documentation instructions and I decorated the class property like so:

 [RemoveHtmlTagsWhenIndexing]
        public string NoticeDescription { get; set; }

In ClientInitialization.cs there is also this:

// Remove HTML tags
            conventions.ForInstancesOf<object>()
                .FieldsOfType<string>().StripHtml();

However, HTML tags are still returned in the API response like so:

noticeDescription": {
"value": "We will send more information as soon as possible. We apologise for the inconvenience.<br /><br /></p>\n<p><br /><br /></p>\n<p> </p>\n<p> </p>\n<p> </p>",
"propertyDataType": "PropertyXhtmlString"
},

If anybody has wrestled with the same issue, I'd appreciate any tips. Is there a way to easily customize the API response?