# Using BrowseFilter in browseAsync (v8 API)

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/using-browsefilter-in-browseasync-v8-api/27235>\
**Category:** Module Development\
**Tags:** ignition80\
**Created:** [August 7, 2019, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/using-browsefilter-in-browseasync-v8-api/27235 "2019-08-07T15:22:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![fyousuf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee59a6/32.png) [@fyousuf](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/fyousuf)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/using-browsefilter-in-browseasync-v8-api/27235/1 "2019-08-07T15:22:08Z")

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I’m attempting to find the tagpaths inside the gateway’s default tagprovider.  
Using:

```auto
CompletableFuture<Results<NodeDescription>> node=context.getTagManager().getTagProvider("default").browseAsync(TagPath,BrowseFilter);

```

In browseAsync, how is BrowseFilter configured? Currently, node returns a NullPointerException.

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2019, 3:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/using-browsefilter-in-browseasync-v8-api/27235/2 "2019-08-07T15:29:28Z")

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If you don’t need any filtering on results, just use the static `com.inductiveautomation.ignition.common.browsing.BrowseFilter.NONE` instance. If you do need to add filtering, then construct a new BrowseFilter(), then add various name, property, etc filters to it.