How to search Data Models with Javascript in a Search Manager or through a Data Model Object?

[nprab428]

I've created a data model and want to search it in my external Javascript. For my first attempt, a SearchManager would not start the search using the data model query:

    var datamodelSearch = new SearchManager({
        id: "datamodelSearch",
        search: '| datamodel test_commits commits search | where Commit = $commithash$ | head 5 ',
            earliest_time: '-30d'
            latest_time: 'now'
            preview: false,
        cache: true
    }, { tokens: true });

    datamodelSearch.on('search:start', function() {
        console.log('DM STARTED!!!'); // would never get here
    });

On a second attempt, I was trying to use the DataModelObject class, following this documentation:

http://dev.splunk.com/view/javascript-sdk/SP-CAAAEY8#workwithobjects

 var service = mvc.createService({ owner: "nobody" });
    service.dataModels().fetch(function(err, dataModels) { 
        var object = dataModels.item("test_commits").objectByName("commits");
        object.startSearch({}, "| head 5", function(err, job) {
            console.log("The job has name:", job.name);
            job.results({count: 5}, function(err, results, job) {
                 console.log("Fields: ", results.results); // results would be null
            });             
        });
    });

This second search created a search job with a search id, but I was not able to pull the results from the job. However, if I looked up the search id in the job inspector, I would correctly see 5 results.

Could anyone help me out?

[nprab428 · Accepted solution]

Turns out my searchmanager syntax was wrong (forgot commas around the time range, and quotes around the commit hash).

[DalJeanis]

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