How to filter products by catalog id?

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Hi

Here is my catalog structure

Main Catalog

  Category A

    Category B

      Products

Below is my query, I want to filter all products under Category A, however I get empty results. Can someone tell me if the query has any problem?

var products = SearchClient.Instance.Search()

.FilterOnCurrentMarket()
.Filter(x => (_contentLoader.Get(x.ParentLink).ParentLink.ID.Match(Category A.ID)))
.GetContentResult();



#144531
Feb 15, 2016 12:53
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It's something like.Filter(x=>x.Ancestors().Match(rootId))

where rootId  is your Category A

#144536
Feb 15, 2016 13:29
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Edit: Use Ancestors as Daniel says :-)

Extra tip:

You cannot do querying in Find as you would do in Linq. The Filtering you are doing is being done against fields that resides in the index. 

You could add this either as a new property on your object, or as an extension method. If you add an extension method, it would be something like:

        public static int MyCustomField(this ProductContent content)
        {
            // add logic to fetch the ID here 
            return 5;
        }

and then you need to make sure this extension method is being included when indexing:

SearchClient.Instance.Conventions.ForInstancesOf<ProductContent>().IncludeField(x => x.MyExtraField());

Finally, you'll need to reindex, and then you can use the filter:

.Filter(x => x.MyExtraField().Match(.....))

"Ancestors" is already included in the index by conventions, which is why you do filtering on it.

Extra extra Tip: Use Find's explore view to inspect the index. If the value you need to filter on is not there, you cannot filter on it.

#144537
Edited, Feb 15, 2016 13:36
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Thanks Daniel

It works like a charm!!

Just for curiosity, why my query does not work? I have check parent IDs, there is one matched the current category ID.

#144539
Feb 15, 2016 13:39
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Hi Per

Thanks for such great details. It's very frustrating to figure out how it works initially. I really appreciate for you all help. 

If EPiServer Find has a way like 'luke' to analyse the luncene index, it will simplify the things a lot. 

Can anyone help to answer this thread? 

http://world.episerver.com/forum/developer-forum/EPiServer-Search/Thread-Container/2016/2/best-practices-for-indexing-commerce-content/

#144540
Edited, Feb 15, 2016 13:46
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I've made a plugin which makes it easier to inspect items in the index, but that is for IContent only (have not tried with commerce data though!). You could give it a go:

http://world.episerver.com/blogs/Per-Magne-Skuseth/Dates/2015/2/inspect-in-index-for-episerver-find/

#144541
Feb 15, 2016 14:03
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Hi Per

After successfully include the custom property, how can I retrieve this from the index instead of getting from the episerver api?

Thanks

#144594
Feb 16, 2016 2:24
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I found a solution from another thread 

http://world.episerver.com/forum/developer-forum/EPiServer-Search/Thread-Container/2015/1/facets-on-nested-classes1/

and changed extension method to public getter property, it seems working. :)

#144596
Feb 16, 2016 4:46
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I'm not sure what you mean. 
When invoking an extension method inside of a .Filter statement, the value will be fetched from the index. The logic that actually resides in the extension method will not be invoked - that only happens when doing the indexing. Try for yourself: Use an extension method and start a debugging sessions. If you set a breakpoint withing the extension method you'll see that it won't get hit when doing querying - only when indexing.
The Find API will only look at the name and type of the extension method, and then use that information to look for a matching field in the index. 

#144601
Feb 16, 2016 7:43
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When I debug it in the morning, I saw it invoked the extension method while iterating the search result.  Maybe I'm too tired, I will give another try later. 

#144604
Feb 16, 2016 8:03
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When interating the search results it will invoke, as you have already executed the query.

#144634
Feb 16, 2016 14:15
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Hi Per

What I mean is since the new properties are already stored in the index, why does it need to call the extension method again while enumerating the results? 

Regards,

Vincent

#144650
Feb 17, 2016 2:36
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If you need to use the new values in the search results, and not just while filtering, you might want to create them as properties instead, or create poco's and use projections instead.

#144657
Feb 17, 2016 7:51
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