A way to search for multiple types of content

[PaulOlteanu]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Currently the only way to use the search API is to specify the type of content you'd like to search for (e.g. Track, Album, Artist, etc.). I'd like to search for multiple, or all types of content.

Describe the solution you'd like The search function should take an option of a list of SearchTypes (e.g. Some(&[SearchType::Album, SearchType::Track])).

I'm not sure how the SearchResult would work, perhaps the response could be a Page<SearchResult>, and have SearchResult be an enum with a variant per content type (e.g. SearchResult::Track(FullTrack), SearchResult::Album(SimplifiedAlbum), etc.)

Edit: An even simpler way would to have SearchResult be a struct of options:

pub struct SearchResult {
    playlists: Option<Page<SimplifiedPlaylist>>,
    albums:    Option<Page<SimplifiedAlbum>>,
    artists:   Option<Page<FullArtist>>,
    tracks:    Option<Page<FullTrack>>,
    shows:     Option<Page<SimplifiedShow>>,
    episodes:  Option<Page<SimplifiedEpisode>>,
}

while less ergonomic, this more accurately represents the actual Spotify API response (I also now see that the pagination wouldn't really be feasible the way I first proposed)

[PaulOlteanu]

I think the end result for the user is still gonna be the same - having to handle the search results for the different types independently, so I'm not sure there would be much point to this change (other then perhaps reducing the number of API requests made from 1 per content type per search to one per search)