Easily add searching to any application.

Uses Lucene in the background.

Search Syntax: http://www.lucenetutorial.com/lucene-query-syntax.html

• Orc.Search => The core of Orc.Search. Contains the main services, base classes and attributes.
• Orc.Search.Xaml => Containt basic Ui elements, which can be used to add seach functionality to your application.

• Uses Lucene for the indexing and searching
• Properties, which need to be indexed should be decorated with the SearchablePropertyAttribute
• To support highlighting you should create your own search highlight provider, by inheriting from SearchHighlightProviderBase
• You can redefine the implementation of ISearchService, by creating your own class which will inherit SearchServiceBase and register it using Catel.IoC.IServiceLocator
• Supports asynchronos searching (uses ISearchServiceExtensions)

1. Create a POCO class to use in your search and decorate the properties with SearchablePropertyAttribute

    public class Person
    {
    	[SearchableProperty(SearchName = "firstname")]
    	public string FirstName { get; set; }
    	
    	[SearchableProperty(SearchName = "lastname")]
    	public string LastName { get; set; }
    	
    	public int Age { get; set; }
    }
   

2. Fill the ISearchService with the appropriate "Person" data using the AddObjects() method. The objects must be wrapped inside an ISearchable implementation, for example the ReflectionSearchable:

    searchService.AddObjects(persons.Select(x => new ReflectionSearchable(x));
   

• Use the Search() method for getting search results. Use the string filter as an argument. Note that you will receive the ISearchable instances that have a hit. This means you can still retrieve the metadata after a search has been completed.

In order to use the asynchronous version of search. Just use the Async suffix method names (i.e. SearchAsync(), AddObjectsAsync(), RemoveObjectsAsync())