I'm working on a suitelet that takes a saved search as input. I would like to determine record type based on search type. Here is what I'm having to do. Thoughts on mapping search types to record types?

If all you are using it for is to load and run the search, you don't have to specify type in the search.load(). But if you need it to do other stuff with the records returned in the search, you should just be able to get the search type with

search.searchType

so something like this

const savedSearchId = scriptContext.request.parameters["custpage_saved_search"];

let savedSearch = search.load({id: savedSearchId})

const searchType = savedSearch.searchType

let rec = record.load({type: searchType, id: someRecordID})

search type is not the same as record type. you're supposed to use record type for record.load and search type for search.load. They're different enums

That may be true in some edge cases, but i think they are natively the same For example a search on projects would return a search.searchType of 'job' And loading a project record you can use

record.load({type: 'job', id: 123})

i think what i'm doing in getType is safer. i'm not sure that recordType would be a column for every type of saved search. i think the record type of a saved saved search search is actually a search type tho, not a record type