#161966928 Implement Article Search and Filter Feature

[ThaDeveloper]

What does this PR do?

• Implement article search and filter functionalities.

  Description of Task to be completed?

• Implement search by keywords.
• Implement filter by author, title and tags.
• Implement tests

  How should this be manually tested?

  1. git clone -b ft-search-and-filter-articles-161966928 https://github.com/andela/ah-infinity-stones and $ cd ah-infinity-stones
  2. Create and activate virtual env
• virtualenv -p python3 venv
• $ source venv/bin/activate
  3. $ pip3 install -r requirements.txt to install the dependencies
  4. Setup environment variables. Copy all from below and paste them into the .env file. Update the values to your choice.

     export DATABASE_USER='user'
     export DATABASE_PASSWORD=pass'
     export HOST='localhost'
     export PORT='5432'
     export DATABASE_TEST='ah_test'
     export EMAIL_HOST_USER='username'
     export EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD='pass'
     export SECRET_KEY='key-is-secret'

     Activate the env variables by $source .env.

  5. Run migrations: $ python3 manage.py migrate
  6. Run app - $ python3 manage.py runserver
  7. Acess http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/users/ through Postman, provide inputs in the following format and create account.

     { "user": {
     "username": "username44",
     "email": "username@user.com",
     "password": "@Password321"  
     }
     }

     Check your email and activate account. Use the registration token to acess the following endpoints:

• http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/articles - Post an article. Try posting several articles to filter
• Search and filter articles as below: http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/articles/search/?q=<keyword1, keyword2> - Search by keywords, one or more. http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/articles/search/?tag=<author> - Filter by tag,author,title

8. Run testspython3 manage.py test authors.apps.articles.tests.test_views.ArticleSearchTest

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[ThaDeveloper]

@PromasterGuru Will fix this, they have just arisen after https://github.com/andela/ah-infinity-stones/pull/40 has been merged to develop.

[ThaDeveloper]

@codeplus254 Yes, it's possible. So let's say you have filtered by author and you get a 100 hits, you can add another filter params like title or tag to narrow it down to a few hits.

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