Filter by anything

[msholly]

Thanks for your work on this library. I have some user data already loaded in the view, and I'd like to filter by anything that matches. Do I have to specify each field in a getUsers() style function from your examples, or can it just look at the whole record and return anything that matches.

Here's some example code.

"users":[
      {
         "id":1,
         "email":"email@domain.com",
         "fname":"User",
         "lname":"One",
         "department":2,
         "custom_fields":[
            {
               "id":1,
               "value":"ABC Company"
            },
            {
               "id":2,
               "value":"Designer"
            }
         ]
      },
      {
         "id":2,
         "email":"email2@domain.com",
         "fname":"User",
         "lname":"Two",
         "department":3,
         "custom_fields":[
            {
               "id":1,
               "value":"ABC Company"
            },
            {
               "id":2,
               "value":"President"
            }
         ]
      }
   ]

<input [(ngModel)]="searchTerm" value="searchTerm"></input>
<div *ngFor="let user of users | filterBy:searchTerm">

[MurhafSousli]

I have a list of contacts with a text input to filter the result, I would like to be able to filter result by contact name or phone number. Any updates on this?

[VadimDez]

@MurhafSousli use $or - https://github.com/VadimDez/ngx-filter-pipe#or-matching

[ismendoza]

@MurhafSousli No! your solution doesn't work!

1. msholly doesn't want to filter by "one AND two" = "German AND English".
2. msholly wants to filter by email OR fname OR lname in the same input text.

[msholly]

Another way to describe would be a wildcard search, without having to specify the keys to search. Since data could be user generated or dynamic, would be nice to just search no matter what.

[dvalvarenga]

@MurhafSousli I did it .

My register have Name and Number , but I created one field more : name : DAVID phone : + 1 (510) 760 7607 full : david + 1 (510) 760 7607 < --- I use this field to filter, so I've one textfield where I can write something like 'david' or '510' or '+1'......

Maybe it help you.

[Abenezer]

@dvalvarenga offcourse you can do that but it means modifing the data array, which might not be nice if your data came from service or used by other features. @VadimDez its best if the pipe did this itself, add an option to contacate fields ( may be array|filterBy:{term: searchTerm, fields: ['field1','field2']} )

[mshollyintellicon]

Didn't AngularJS <v1.6 look through all available fields, and you had to expressly tell it to only search certain fields? However I'm sure performance-wise, that was a poor choice in old AngularJS.

But I did like @Abenezer suggestion, at least for my use case. Just a clean way to target fields, but also keep in mind that the data structure could be dynamic. So wildcarding or fully searching for any matches might be more widely helpful.

[RobertThwaite]

Just created a Pull request implementing Abenezer Suggestion. And ability to close this issue

[anurag-aadi]

the issue still open, the problem are really big :(

[Oowaay]

Any news on this feature ? I'm really interested :/

[RobertThwaite]

Not sure if vadimDez has seen the pull request. If not you can pull directly from that if your urgent.

[anurag-aadi]

i got the solutions, but its just a smart way :) put all your data in particular filed as with pipe divided and filter on that particular field you got the result :)