Custom Query (2152 matches)

Reported by dread, 4 years ago.

When you edit a package, all of its resources are deleted and a fresh set created. This causes all history of them to be lost.

Reported by kindly, 2 years ago.

We want to be able to change form depending on package type or group type.

This is dependent on a type field being added to the Package and the Group.

Reported by rgrp, 5 years ago.

Add package search facility in the rest api at /api/search

Queries can be provided as for the normal package search either by posting to that url or by performing a get with a query string.

E.g. .../api/search/package?q=xyz

Query parameters:

• q is keyword string (searches name, title, tags by default)
  • split by words and ANDed
• additional parameters for specific fields
• qjson is alternative to q for Searching by specific fields (in addition to keyword string). Payload to json is a JSON-encoded dict which is a dictionary with a q field for free text (keywords) and additional key/value pairs for specific fields
  • if q and qjson specified ignore q and just process qjson value

Additional parameters in addition to query ("q" or "qjson") are:

• limit
• offset
• fullinfo=0/1 - return full record for each result (default=0)
• order_by=field_name
• search_notes=0/1 (default 0) do we search notes field in a keyword search

Return value is json encoded dictionary with keys:

• 'results': list of results
• 'count': total number of results

Extras (for the future)

• Prioritisation is not part of this ticket (requires fulltext support in DB or in external app such as Xapian)