Cognitive Search

Useful Vocabulary For 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.