Azure search API - search filter syntax - azure-cognitive-search

Question

I'm using the azure search api trying to filter by a certain field value: businesstype = store. It always returns 3 stores, even though I should have thousands. I can't tell for sure what's inside the index. In the Azure search web portal I type businessType eq 'store' and it gives me two stores, then starts returning businesstype = restaurant. Not sure what is going on. We have other implementations in other projects where filters are working. Here's code that I'm executing as it is invoked by using ASP.NET Web API
var indexClient = new SearchIndexClient(GlobalSettings.SearchServiceName, $"businesses{GlobalSettings.Environment}", new SearchCredentials(GlobalSettings.SearchServiceAdminApiKey));
if (latitude == null && longitude == null)
{
//chicago
latitude = 41.8333925;
longitude = -88.0121478;
}
// get all attributes and camel case them
var attributes = typeof(BusinessSearchItem).GetProperties().Select(x => char.ToLowerInvariant(x.Name[0]) + x.Name.Substring(1)).ToList();
var parameters = new SearchParameters
{
Select = attributes,
QueryType = QueryType.Full,
Top = take,
Skip = skip,
IncludeTotalResultCount = true,
OrderBy = new List<string>() { $"geo.distance(location, geography'POINT({longitude} {latitude})')" }
};
// filters
string filter = "";
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(businessType))
{
switch (businessType.ToLower())
{
case "restaurant":
filter += "businessType eq 'Restaurant'";
break;
case "store":
filter += "businessType eq 'Store'";
break;
}// end switch on business type
}
parameters.Filter = filter;
try
{
// run the search
var results = indexClient.Documents.Search<BusinessSearchItem>(q, parameters);
Logger.Log.Info($"Search conducted. Query: {q} Business Type: {businessType} Lat: {latitude} Long: {longitude} User: {username}");
var businessDTOs = results.Results.Select(x => new BusinessDTO
{
.........
).ToList()
}).ToList();
the model BusinessSearchItem has a field BusinessType of string that has the attribute searchable. The skip is 0 and take 40.

Answer 1

The problem wasn't the search at all, it was that the data was not in the index