I am using Sitecore 10.1 with SXA, I have a page that contains search results component and I have noticed that the query that is generated and run on SOLR is retrieving all the fields in the response. Is there a way to override this behavior and return only the fields that will be displayed in search results component?
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There is no way to do that out of the box. You would need to override Sitecore.XA.Foundation.Search.Services.SearchService in order to change the way how the query is generated. Right now we are using Sitecore.XA.Foundation.Search.Models.ContentPage as a query return type. It contains a few SXA specific fields and inherits from the Sitecore Sitecore.ContentSearch.SearchTypes.SearchResultItem class which contains a loooot of fields (as you notice it).
So technically it is possible but I strongly recommend not to do that as you will end up overriding a few classes while the Search Results component is using paging anyway (you are not getting all of the items and all of the fields at one time).
