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Session: Querying: How to work with suggestions?

Session Query method contains extensions (Suggest) that allow you to use suggestion feature.

Syntax​

// This dynamic query on the 'Products' collection has NO resulting documents
List<Product> products = session
  .Query<Product>()
  .Where(x => x.Name == "chaig")
  .ToList();
Parameters
querySuggestionQueryA suggestion query definition containing all information required to query a specified index.
Return Value
SuggestionQueryResultResult containing array of all suggestions for executed query.

Example​

// Query for suggested terms for single term:
// ==========================================

Dictionary<string, SuggestionResult> suggestions = session
   // Make a dynamic query on collection 'Products'
  .Query<Product>()
   // Call 'SuggestUsing'
  .SuggestUsing(builder => builder
       // Request to get terms from field 'Name' that are similar to 'chaig' 
      .ByField(x => x.Name, "chaig"))
  .Execute();