Search

[unhuman]

It'd be great if we could search.

[mbland]

There's two types of search we need:

• A search on target/destination links per #165.
• A search on short links, to enable features like #160.

Also, introducing tags per #162 may introduce a third search, but that's lower priority.

Focusing on the search on short links, the RedisClient.getLinks() method added in #163 does most of the backend heavy lifting already. We can expand upon that method to take a regex as a parameter to replace the hardcoded /* string. Then we need to figure out how to expose an API endpoint and a UI element.

I hope to make progress on #167 in the near future to make working with this code easier.

cc: @akashvbabu @mpdatx

[mbland]

Chatted with @akashvbabu, here's our current plan:

• [ ] Add a /api/search backend method. An option will select between custom link and target URL search.
• [ ] Add a #search view for the /api/search method. Include a client-side control to search short links or target links.

We'll decide later whether we need any autocomplete capabilities.