Search by qualified parameter in a LookUP Qualified Flat Multi Valued Table

Question

I am working  on a MDM development but I am having some problems the development consists in searching in MDM a certain key but the thing is that this value is stored in a Look up qualified flat multi valued table, I have implemented a code that gives me the correct results but it takes a lot of time because it goes through all the main table the ideal would be to search directly for this value but as it is in a look up qualified  multi valued table I dont know how to implement this kind of search, do you have an idea how to implement this.
Main Table : ING_ROLE_PLAYER
Lookup qualified flat multi valued table : ILYTICS_SEARCH_KEY, this table has two qualifiers KEY_TYPE and SEARCH_KEY
I receive a string that represents a SEARCH KEY as a parameter to look into MDM and get some data this is I want to search using a qualifier parameter as a search parameter.
If anybody could help me it would be vey helpful
Best Regards
Michele González

Answer 1

Hi Michele,
Try the following code :
String searchKey="/the value of the input searchkey/";
// create a catalog object
CatalogData catalog = new CatalogData();
// create a search object on the main table.
Search search = new Search("ING_ROLE_PLAYER");
// create a resultset definition on the main table
ResultSetDefinition rsd = new ResultSetDefinition("ING_ROLE_PLAYER");
A2iResultSet result=null;
// adding a free-form limiting for the specified table
     FreeFormTableParameter fftpRole = search.GetParameters().NewFreeFormTableParameter("ING_ROLE_PLAYER");
//add a new table 'ILYTICS_SEARCH_KEY'-the qualified lookup table to the search object.
     FreeFormTableParameter fftpKeys =  search.GetParameters().NewFreeFormTableParameter("ILYTICS_SEARCH_KEY");
// get the field 'SEARCH_KEY' of the 'ILYTICS_SEARCH_KEY' table for free-form search.
     FreeFormParameterField fftpKey = fftpKeys.GetFields().New("SEARCH_KEY",FreeFormParameterField.SEARCH_OPERATOR_AND);
//add a free-form search parameter for 'SEARCH_KEY'
     fftpKey.GetFreeForm().NewString(searchKey,FreeFormParameter.EqualToSearchType);
// obtain the result set
     result = catalog.GetResultSet(search, rsd, "/any field name in main table and resultset definition/", true, 0);
Hope it helps.
Pls reward, if helpful.
Regards,
Karambir Singh.