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Easily manage the contents of your storage account with Azure Storage Explorer. Upload, download, and manage blobs, files, queues, tables, and Cosmos DB entities. Gain easy access to manage your virtual machine disks. Work with either Azure Resource Manager or classic storage accounts, plus manage and configure cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) rules.
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Substring search instead of prefix search in "Open container by name" #7968

Open me-manikanta opened 1 month ago

me-manikanta commented 1 month ago

Preflight Checklist

Problem

I face difficulty in remembering the start of the container name when trying to open a "container by name"

Desired Solution

Currently the "container by name" feature only does prefix search. If we can change it to a substring search would that would be helpful.

Alternatives and Workarounds

There is no alternative, apart from trying to remember the start of the name of the container I am trying to open.

Additional Context

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craxal commented 1 month ago

@me-manikanta Storage Explorer only uses prefix search, because that's what the Azure API currently supports. Infix or substring search is not supported server-side.

Supporting this would require a client-side implementation and would be much less performant. because it would require retrieving the entire list of containers from service. Many users have many, many of containers in their storage accounts.

The Azure Portal, likewise, is restricted to prefix search.

Related to #1667.