How to Perform an Inventory Item Search Using NetSuite SuiteTalk SOAP API in C#?

NetSuite developer resources provide C# examples demonstrating how to interact with the SuiteTalk SOAP API. The following C# code illustrates how to perform an inventory item search by name and type, including a helper method to display item fields. This approach leverages objects like ItemSearch, SearchStringField, SearchEnumMultiSelectField, ItemSearchBasic, and the _service.search method to construct the search criteria and execute it.

private String ITEM_TYPE  "_inventoryItem";
          /// <summary> Searches for InventoryItem records based on a
keyword entered by
          /// the user.  All inventory items, including parent items,  with the
          /// keyword found in their name field will be returned.
          /// </summary>

    public virtual void  searchInventoryItemByName()
                    {
    _out.writeLn("Enter a keyword of the item name to be searched");
     System.String keyWordString  _out.readLn();

                    ItemSearch itemSearch  new ItemSearch();

                    SearchStringField name  new SearchStringField();
                    name.@operator  SearchStringFieldOperator.contains;
                    name.operatorSpecified  true;
                    name.searchValue  keyWordString;

                    SearchEnumMultiSelectField type  new
SearchEnumMultiSelectField();
                    String[] inv  new String[1];
                    inv[0]  ITEM_TYPE;
                    type.@operator  SearchEnumMultiSelectFieldOperator.anyOf;
                    type.operatorSpecified  true;
                    type.searchValue  inv;

                    ItemSearchBasic itemBasic  new ItemSearchBasic();
                    itemBasic.type  type;
                    itemBasic.itemId  name;

                    itemSearch.basic  itemBasic;

                    SearchResult res  _service.search(itemSearch);
                    if (res.status.isSuccess)
                    {
                        Record[] recordList;
                        _out.writeLn("

Number of items found with thenkeyword " + keyWordString + ": " + res.totalRecords);
                        if (res.totalRecords > 0)
                        {
                            _out.writeLn("

Page size: " + res.pageSize);

                            for (int i  1; i < res.totalPages; i++)
                            {
                                recordList  res.recordList;
                                _out.writeLn("Page " + res.pageIndex);
                                _out.writeLn("------");

                                for (int j  0; j < recordList.Length; j++)
                                {
                                    if (recordList[j] is InventoryItem)
                                    {
                                        InventoryItem item
(InventoryItem) (recordList[j]);
                                        displayInventoryItemFields(item);
                                    }
                                }
                                if (res.pageIndex < res.totalPages)
                                {
                                    res
_service.searchMoreWithId(res.searchId, i + 1);
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        _out.error(getStatusDetails(res.status));
                    }
                }

/// <summary> A helper method that takes an
InventoryItem and prints out
                /// its Display Name, Item ID and Cost fields.
                /// </summary>
                private void  displayInventoryItemFields(InventoryItem item)
                {
                    if (item ! null)
                    {
                        if (item.displayName ! null)
                        {
                            _out.writeLn("     Display Name:
     " + item.displayName);
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            _out.writeLn("     Display Name:
     none");
             
                        }
                    }
                }