Autocomplete

Autocomplete works in a similar fashion to the general search functionalities.

Optimizely.Hawksearch.Client package contains classes which will correspond to the requests and responses provided by Hawksearch’s Autocomplete API.

AutocompleteRequest
AutocompleteResponse

However, it does not contain Search filters.

The Flow

Using only Optimizely.Hawksearch.Client

Create and populate an AutocompleteRequest object
Use the Autocomplete method of the SearchClient class (or its async counterpart)

public AutocompleteResponse<TProduct, TContent> Autocomplete<TProduct, TContent>(AutocompleteRequest searchRequest)
    where TProduct : HawksearchProductItem
    where TContent : HawksearchContentItem
    
public async Task<AutocompleteResponse<TProduct, TContent>> AutocompleteAsync<TProduct, TContent>(AutocompleteRequest searchRequest)
    where TProduct : HawksearchProductItem
    where TContent : HawksearchContentItem

Get the AutocompleteResponse object then map it to your business models

Using both

Optimizely.Hawksearch.Client and Optimizely.Hawksearch.Connector

Build an AutocompleteRequest object by passing a keyword (string) to an AutocompleteRequestBuilder and its Fluent API
Use one of the Autocomplete methods of the SearchClient class show above
Get the AutocompleteResponse object then map it to your business models

A high-level example:

public AutocompleteResults Autocomplete(string keyword)
{
    var request = new AutocompleteRequestBuilder()
        .ForLanguage("en")
        .DisplayFullResponse()
        .Build(keyword);
        
    //SearchClient _client
    var response = _client.Autocomplete<HawksearchProductItem, HawksearchContentItem>(request);
    var mappedResponse = MapAutocompleteResults(response);

    return mappedResponse;
}