Get Search Results in SharePoint Hosted APP Using JavaScript

In this article I would like to share the code to get the search results in a SharePoint Hosted app using JavaScript.

SharePoint provides custom ways to get search results using REST. JSOM. Here I provide the code to get search results using the JavaScript object model.

getSearchResults Method

In this method I've got the search results based on content type and bind the search result title value in a lable on OnQuerySuccess.

Use the following code to get the search results.

var ctx;
var results;
// This code runs when the DOM is ready and creates a context object which is needed to use the SharePoint object model
$(document).ready(function ()
{
   // Get the URI decoded URLs.
   appWebUrl = decodeURIComponent(manageQueryStringParameter('SPAppWebUrl'));
   ExecuteOrDelayUntilScriptLoaded(getSearchResults, "sp.js");

});
//This function is used to get the hostweb url
function manageQueryStringParameter(paramToRetrieve)
{
   var params = document.URL.split("?")[1].split("&");
   var strParams = "";
   for (var i = 0; i < params.length; i = i + 1)
   {
      var singleParam = params[i].split("=");
      if (singleParam[0] == paramToRetrieve)
      {
         return singleParam[1];
      }
   }
}

//Get Search results based on Content Type ID

function getSearchResults()
{
   // As per your requirement you can change the "queryStr", here I got the result based on content type
   var queryStr = "ContentTypeId:0x0100BEAD925C1BB0494FB50B0D4B0B9F7325*"; //content Type ID
   ctx = new SP.ClientContext(appWebUrl); // get current App Context
   var keywordQuery = new Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Search.Query.KeywordQuery(ctx);
   keywordQuery.set_queryText(queryStr);
   var searchExecutor = new Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Search.Query.SearchExecutor(ctx);
   results = searchExecutor.executeQuery(keywordQuery);
   ctx.executeQueryAsync(onQuerySuccess, onQueryFail);
   // method will exit here and onQuerySuccess or onQueryFail will be called asynchronously

}

//bind the Results in Div

function onQuerySuccess()
{

  var searchResult= results.m_value.ResultTables[0].ResultRows;
    $.each(searchResults, function () {      //if you want more properties you can get by managed properties in search results     var NewsTitle = this.Title != null ? this. Title: "";        document.getElementById(Title).innerText += NewsTitle;       });
}

function onQueryFail(sender, args)
{
   alert('Query failed. Error:' + args.get_message());
}

Note

In the AppManifest.xml file provide QueryAsUserIgnoreAPPPrincipal permission to the Search.



Summary

In this article we explored how to get the search results based on Content Type ID using JavaScript. I hope that the code above will be really useful for a SharePoint hosted app.