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Useful Vocabulary For Cognitive Search

Cognitive Search

Documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/javascript/api/overview/azure/search-documents-readme?view=azure-node-latest

What is Cognitive Search?

It is a search as a service that gives a developer an API to add a search experience through a user defined index

Index definition

A user defined Object that lets cognitive search know what to return based on certain fields

Fields Include:

  • Searchable - Allows a field to be searched
  • Facetable - Allows a field to be counted
  • Retrievable - Cannot be searched, but the field name will be returned
  • Filterable - Indicates whether to enable the field to be referenced in $filter queries
  • Sortable - Indicates whether to enable the field to be referenced in $orderby expressions

Important Classes

SearchClient

  • Searching your indexed documents using rich queries and powerful data shaping
  • Autocompleting partially typed search terms based on documents in the index
  • Suggesting the most likely matching text in documents as a user types
  • Adding, Updating or Deleting Documents documents from an index

SearchIndexClient

  • Create, delete, update, or configure a search index
  • Declare custom synonym maps to expand or rewrite queries

SearchIndexerClient

  • Start indexers to automatically crawl data sources
  • Define AI powered Skillsets to transform and enrich your data

Consuming Cognitive Search

  • Create an index for a document using SearchIndexClient.
  • Get/Search a document from an index using SearchClient
  • Add documents into an index: based on the index definition, the library will look for the documents in the data source to add it to the index.