Query API in Azure AI Search that finishes partially typed terms using suggester fields, invoked with suggesterName. To get matching documents back, use Suggestions instead.
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Terms in this definition
- API
Short for application programming interface: a contract that client code calls programmatically, for example a web API secured with tokens or the Files, Images or Responses APIs.
- Azure AI Search
Managed Azure service that builds indexes over your content and answers keyword, vector, hybrid and semantically ranked queries, optionally with AI enrichment. Retrieval-augmented generation, Foundry agents and knowledge mining all use it to fetch relevant content.
- Suggester
Construct in an Azure AI Search index naming the sourceFields used for suggestions and autocomplete. An index can have only one, and its source fields need a language or the standard analyser.
- Get
Key Vault permission on secrets that allows a single secret to be read; App Service Key Vault references need nothing beyond it.
Related terms
- Search Index Data Reader
Data-plane role in Azure AI Search limited to search, lookups, suggestions and autocomplete. It can be assigned for the whole service or a single index and replaces query keys with keyless access.