I currently have the following:
public IEnumerable<News> NewsItems
{
get { return from s in News.All() where s.Description.Contains(SearchCriteria) || s.Summary.Contains(SearchCriteria) select s; }
}
The problem is I only need to return the one property that actually has the data as well as the Title property, something similar to.
return from s in News.All() where s.Description.Contains(SearchCriteria) || s.Summary.Contains(SearchCriteria) select new {Title = s.Title, Data = //Description or Summary containing the data
How do I determine which one contains the search query?
UPDATE: I have this but it obviously hits the DB 3 times
var FoundInSummary = News.All().Any(x => x.Summary.Contains(SearchCriteria));
var FoundInDesc = News.All().Any(x => x.Description.Contains(SearchCriteria));
IEnumerable<NewsEventSearchResults> result = null;
if ((FoundInSummary && FoundInDesc) || (FoundInSummary))
{
result = (from s in News.All() where s.Summary.Contains(SearchCriteria) select new NewsEventSearchResults { Title = s.Title, Data = s.Summary, ID = s.ID }).AsEnumerable();
}
else if (FoundInDesc)
{
result = (from s in News.All() where s.Description.Contains(SearchCriteria) select new NewsEventSearchResults { Title = s.Title, Data = s.Description, ID = s.ID }).AsEnumerable();
}
return result;
UPDATE 2: Is this more efficent?
var ss = (from s in News.All() where s.Description.Contains(SearchCriteria) || s.Summary.Contains(SearchCriteria) select s).ToList();
List<NewsEventSearchResults> resultList = new List<NewsEventSearchResults>();
foreach (var item in ss)
{
bool FoundInSummary = item.Summary.Contains(SearchCriteria);
bool FoundInDesc = item.Description.Contains(SearchCriteria);
if ((FoundInSummary && FoundInDesc) || (FoundInSummary))
{
resultList.Add(new NewsEventSearchResults { Title = item.Title, Data = item.Summary, ID = item.ID });
}
else if (FoundInDesc)
{
resultList.Add(new NewsEventSearchResults { Title = item.Title, Data = item.Description, ID = item.ID });
}
}