this feels like a dumb question but if I run the following:

var someSearch = search.create({ [assume valid search here] });

var countOfResults = someSearch.runPaged().count;
if(countOfResults == 1){
     var one_result = someSearch.run().getRange(0,1);
}

Am I technically eating up more governance by running the search twice or does the runPaged meta data not incur governance?

runPaged()

is 5 governance units according to help. If you just need to get the first result I write it like this

const firstResult = Seq(LazySearch(someSearch)).map(nsSearchResult2obj()).first()

That would be a good approach for that scenario and I'll keep that in mind, but in this case I need to verify that I have only one matching result before using it or doing something else. Thanks for the input on runpaged using 5 pts I'll probably have to optimize this so that I'm not burning more pts than I need to

If you expect to have a small number of results just getrange() it so you have both the data and a count all in one

yeah it shouldn't be more than 1000 ever

aye, so in that case just getting the results (if you need to get them anyway) once is an efficient scheme

cool thanks for the reply, it helps to talk stuff out while I'm still wrapping my brain around 2.0 lol

Use PagedData.fetch

hmm interesting

anything that tries to use the count in combination with getRange is lazy and wrong

lol

i no longer recommend that extension since im tired of seeing that code

I'm heavily modifying it at this point, but it did give me a good idea of how to start building the search calls that I needed

filters and filter expressions are different things

maybe the extension was written that way because it would be easier to handle all filters as filter expressions

filter expressions can represent more searches than filters