public SearchModel Result(string searchKey)
{
SearchModel model = new SearchModel();
List <AuthorSearchModel> authors = new List <AuthorSearchModel>();
List <BookSearchModel> books = new List <BookSearchModel>();
List <PublisherModel> publishers = new List <PublisherModel>();
List <CategoryTagAssigment> entity = _categoryTagAssignment.Search(searchKey);
foreach (var item in entity)
{
AuthorSearchModel author = new AuthorSearchModel();
BookSearchModel book = new BookSearchModel();
PublisherModel publisher = new PublisherModel();
author.Id = item.AuthorId;
author.Name = item.AuthorName + " " + item.AuthorSurname;
book.Id = item.BookId;
book.Name = item.BookName;
publisher.Id = item.PublisherId;
publisher.Name = item.PublisherName;
authors.Add(author);
books.Add(book);
publishers.Add(publisher);
}
model.Authors = authors.GroupBy(x => x.Id).Select(x => x.First()).ToList();
model.Books = books.GroupBy(x => x.Id).Select(x => x.First()).ToList();
model.Publishers = publishers.GroupBy(x => x.Name).Select(x => x.First()).ToList();
return(model);
}
/*
* This controls searching for an author feature.
* It will return a list of authors.
*/
public ActionResult SearchForAuthor(string txtNameSearch)
{
BookContext b = new BookContext();
var authorSearch = new AuthorSearchModel();
authorSearch.authorNameSearch = txtNameSearch;
authorSearch.authorsList = (from book in b.Books
where book.authors.Contains(txtNameSearch)
select book.authors).Distinct().ToList();
return(View(authorSearch));
}
