Hello. I'd like to convert published and unpublished content in Umbraco to a strongly-typed model, using a singular approach.

I'm exploring using the "Internal" Examine index to do this, which contains both published and unpublished data.

Currently I read the property/value pairs returned from Examine, convert to JSON and the convert to a strongly-typed model.

This is working, even for Nested Content properties.

However, it does not work when I enabled Variants, as the property names returned by Examine then have a Culture suffix e.g. "department" becomes "department_fr-fr".

Q. Is there a way to tell Examine to search using a specific Culture and return property names without the suffix?

Is there a better way to achieve the requirements?

Many thanks

My current code is below:

        ISearcher searcher;

        if (_examineManager.TryGetIndex(Constants.UmbracoIndexes.InternalIndexName, out var index))
        {
            searcher = index.GetSearcher();
        }
        else
        {
            throw new ApplicationException("Could not create index.");
        }

        var criteria = searcher.CreateQuery("content").NodeTypeAlias("person").And().Field($"department_fr-fr", "FrenchCatering");

        var searchResults = criteria.Execute();

        if (searchResults.Any())
        {
            var searchResult = searchResults.FirstOrDefault();

            if (searchResult != null)
            {
                var sourceDictionary = searchResult.Values;
                var json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(sourceDictionary);
                result = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<T>(json);
            }
        }

        return result;
    }