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The searchable plugin seems to default to only 10 results. How do I change this to return all results?

@ Bill I'm looking for something like this:

DomainClass.search("This is the query", [max:every_last_one_of_em])

I could put a limit of like 40 and probably be fine, but the purpose of this search is to give a human a list of similar things to disambiguate, so if some of the things are missing the stupid humans will likely use "assumption" to get the wrong answers.

Mikey
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    Note, my sample below might be a little easier to fit into your code if you'd shown some of your code in your question. – billjamesdev Jul 07 '11 at 22:50

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From the documentation at: http://grails.org/Searchable+Plugin+-+Methods+-+search

Options affecting the return value
    max - The maximum number of results to return (default 10). Only used with result: "searchResult"

So it seems you'll need to pass in a Map of options to your search call, like:

DomainClass.search( "This is the query", [max:1000] )

Note, having an "unlimited" search result is a Bad Idea(TM). Figure out the max you want to handle and use that as your limit.

I would suggest having a "large" limit, if you must. If you get back that many, then do a further query to find out how many there are (there is an option for that too), and display a message to the user that "This is an incomplete set, please further restrict your view" or some such.

If you absolutely MUST show them all. Then use that count query (it's an option in the page I listed above), then resend the search using that count as the max.

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  • @Mikey Because it's bad practice to allow a million rows to be displayed to the user. Does a user really want that to happen, and how long would they have to wait for it to happen? – billjamesdev Jul 08 '11 at 21:05
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Mikey to make the search return all results just remove the max field from the defaultMethodOptions.

You can find this declaration in Configuration -> Searchable.groovy 

defaultMethodOptions = [
    search: [reload: false, escape: true, offset: 0, max: 10, defaultOperator: "and"],
    suggestQuery: [userFriendly: true]
]
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