topic Re: Is a Javascript event called when a SearchManager search returns no data? in Dashboards & Visualizations

Is a Javascript event called when a SearchManager search returns no data?

jmurdza — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 19:09:50 GMT

If search is a SearchManager, the callback search.data("results").on("data", callback) is called when a search returns more than zero events. However I want to know when there are zero events returned.

I see search.on("search:done", callback) and search.on("change", callback) are also callbacks called when a search is finished, but they always called before search.data("results").data() is populated.

How can I consistently know when there is no data returned from a search?

Re: Is a Javascript event called when a SearchManager search returns no data?

dgladkikh_splun — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 19:51:47 GMT

search:done event is triggered with two arguments, first is the search manager state object, second is the js sdk job object. First argument can tell you number of events / results.

search.on("search:done", function(state, job) { if (state.content.resultCount === 0) { alert("no results"); } });

Re: Is a Javascript event called when a SearchManager search returns no data?

jeffland — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 09:08:18 GMT

This should find its way into the documentation... or is it already in there, but I didn't find it?

Re: Is a Javascript event called when a SearchManager search returns no data?

kikexclusive — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 17:49:23 GMT

I have the exact same question about the documentation. Do we have to guess these workarounds?

Re: Is a Javascript event called when a SearchManager search returns no data?

tommywang — Fri, 18 Dec 2015 07:55:44 GMT

This really helps me a lot. I tried some stupid ways to deal with this situation. Is this written into the documentation? It should be.

Re: Is a Javascript event called when a SearchManager search returns no data?

yurykiselev — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 13:14:03 GMT

Splunk web framework documentation is terrible!