Search Method (SearchClause)

Article
11/12/2009

Executes a unified search for one or more Customers objects using the default search options.

Namespace: Microsoft.CommerceServer.Marketing
Assembly: Microsoft.CommerceServer.Marketing.CrossTierTypes (in Microsoft.CommerceServer.Marketing.CrossTierTypes.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Function Search ( _
    clause As SearchClause _
) As DataSet

'Usage
Dim instance As CustomerManager
Dim clause As SearchClause
Dim returnValue As DataSet

returnValue = instance.Search(clause)

public DataSet Search(
    SearchClause clause
)

public:
DataSet^ Search(
    SearchClause^ clause
)

public function Search(
    clause : SearchClause
) : DataSet

Parameters

clause
Type: Microsoft.CommerceServer..::.SearchClause
A SearchClause containing a search clause or term created by SearchClauseFactory.

Return Value

Type: System.Data..::.DataSet
A DataSet containing the search results.

Exceptions

Exception	Condition
ArgumentException	An operand of the search clause has the wrong data type.
InvalidOperationException	The operator used within a search clause does not support the operand type.
ArgumentNullException	No entity type was specified for the search.
EntityDoesNotExistException	Entity type being searched is not in the list of searchable entities.
SearchRecordsPerPageException	The number of records per page requested is greater than the system configured limit.
SearchPageNumberException	Exception is thrown when a requested page (other than the first page) contains no search result records.
SearchException	The clause does not have a valid XML format.

Remarks

This overload of the Search method searches all types of customers using default search options.

This method uses the long running SQL command, sqlCommandTimeoutSeconds, of MarketingServices. The long running SQL command time out default is specified in web.config and is normally 120 seconds.

Permissions

Full trust for the immediate caller. This member cannot be used by partially trusted code. For more information, see Using Libraries from Partially Trusted Code.

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