I have wasted too much time over the last couple of days figuring out why my REST service will only return 32 entries….

Problem
This would seam like a simple search using the viewJSONService and I would expect in my case to see 198 results

<xe:restService id="marky" pathInfo="marky">
	<xe:this.service>
		<xe:viewJsonService defaultColumns="true" viewName="ByName-First">
			<xe:this.search><![CDATA["Avenue"]]></xe:this.search>
		</xe:viewJsonService>
	</xe:this.service>
</xe:restService>

But I only get 32 – why???

Solution

Something simple, small and unassuming – searchMaxDocs. When it is not set the default is not All Matching Documents as I had assumed…

If you do NOT set searchMaxDocs to ZERO you will never get more than 32 documents in your search results.

<xe:restService id="marky" pathInfo="marky">
	<xe:this.service>
		<xe:viewJsonService defaultColumns="true" viewName="ByName-First" searchMaxDocs="0">
			<xe:this.search><![CDATA["Avenue"]]></xe:this.search>
		</xe:viewJsonService>
	</xe:this.service>
</xe:restService>

Conclusion

The default number of results when searching a REST service is 32

Always set your searchMaxDocs=”0″