How to create a search using sharepoint JSOM

Question

I'm new to SharePoint and JSOM and i'm trying to build up a search using JSOM.

and i tried below code snippets

I FOLLOWED FOLLOWING BLOG http://www.dotnetmafia.com/blogs/dotnettipoftheday/archive/2013/04/18/how-to-query-search-with-the-sharepoint-2013-javascript-client-object-model.aspx

Is there any search.js file i should linked? if so what would be the link?? However these are the links i added

1st step: Create a page and added following HTML

It has search button : #searchButton and text box : #searchTextBox

i linked JQuery and abc.js file succesfully

and added this JS code to abc.js file

'use strict';

var results;

var context = SP.ClientContext.get_current();
var user = context.get_web().get_currentUser();


$(document).ready(function () {

    $("#searchButton").click(function () {

       alert('check1');
        var keywordQuery = new Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Search.Query.KeywordQuery(context);
        keywordQuery.set_queryText($("#searchTextBox").val());

       alert('check2');

        var searchExecutor = new Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Search.Query.SearchExecutor(context);
        results = searchExecutor.executeQuery(keywordQuery);

        context.executeQueryAsync(onQuerySuccess, onQueryFail)
    });
});


function onQuerySuccess() {
    $("#resultsDiv").append('<table>');

    $.each(results.m_value.ResultTables[0].ResultRows, function () {
        $("#resultsDiv").append('<tr>');
        $("#resultsDiv").append('<td>' + this.Title + '</td>');
        $("#resultsDiv").append('<td>' + this.Author + '</td>');
        $("#resultsDiv").append('<td>' + this.Write + '</td>');
        $("#resultsDiv").append('<td>' + this.Path + '</td>');
        $("#resultsDiv").append('</tr>');
    });

    $("#resultsDiv").append('</table>');
}

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

In this code check1 alert is coming but not the check2 alert.. Whats the wrong with this..?

Answer 1

For quite some time, I used to get around a similar issue in regards to the Search API. Over and over again I was troubled with the following error-message:

Object doesn't support this action

Try to add a reference/key to Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Search.Query.KeywordQuery instead of Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Search.Query.

At least that worked for me.

Working sample below:

function Search() {
    var d = $.Deferred();

    SP.SOD.executeFunc("SP.js", "SP.ClientContext", function () {
        SP.SOD.executeFunc("SP.Search.js", "Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Search.Query.KeywordQuery", function () {
            var sContext = SP.ClientContext.get_current();
            var keywordQuery = new Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Search.Query.KeywordQuery(sContext);
            keywordQuery.set_trimDuplicates(false);
            keywordQuery.set_queryText("*");
            var searchExecutor = new Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Search.Query.SearchExecutor(sContext);
            results = searchExecutor.executeQuery(keywordQuery);
            sContext.executeQueryAsync(
                function () {
                    d.resolve(results);
                },
                function (err) {
                    d.reject(null);
                }
            );
        });
    });

    return d.promise();
}

Answer 2

You are most probably missing the reference to SP.Search.js file. Add following code to add reference to it:

<SharePoint:ScriptLink language="javascript" name="SP.Search.js" OnDemand="true" runat="server" Localizable="false">
</SharePoint:ScriptLink>

Then in the $(document).ready( method call it using SP.SOD.executeFunc function. Example: SP.SOD.executeFunc('SP.Search.js', 'Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Search.Query', SetSearchSettings); - See more at: http://onlinecoder.blogspot.in/2014/03/loading-javascript-libraries-only-when.html#sthash.k2B2SvJd.dpuf

UPDATE

Based on the comments, it also looks like sp.js file is also not loaded. Add these script references also:

<SharePoint:ScriptLink Name="MicrosoftAjax.js" runat="server" Defer="False" Localizable="false"/>
<SharePoint:ScriptLink Name="SP.core.js" runat="server" Defer="False" Localizable="false"/>
<SharePoint:ScriptLink Name="SP.js" runat="server" Defer="True" Localizable="false"/>