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Inheritance and interfaces

Describes inheritance when using the Client class and interfaces in the .NET Client API for Optimizely Search & Navigation.

When searching using the Client class, inheritance is supported. For example, you have two classes, User and Author. If you search for users, you also get matching authors back.

searchResult = client.Search<User>()
    .For("John")
    .InField(x => x.Name)
    .GetResult();

var isUser = (searchResult.First is User);
//isUser IS true

var isAuthor = (searchResult.First is Author);
//isAuthor MIGHT be true

You also can search over types that implement a specific interface.