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codeforboston / police-data-trust

A national archive of police data collected by journalists, lawyers, and activists around the country.
https://www.nationalpolicedata.org
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[FEATURE] General Name Search Endpoint #367

Open DMalone87 opened 8 months ago

DMalone87 commented 8 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. A future version of the Index will allow a user to search for an officer or agency by name using a single search bar. We should create a more flexible search endpoint that will return results of various types that match the search terms.

Describe the solution you'd like Add a general search endpoint the the API that can return results of any type. This endpoint should accept a string and return a list of results that are separated into categories (Officers, Agencies) and ordered by relevance.

Describe alternatives you've considered Our current methods allow a user to search only for a single type of record.

Additional context User Workflows

DMalone87 commented 7 months ago

Something worth checking out for inspo: https://opensearch.org/