1. 04 Nov, 2020 1 commit
    • Dylan Griffith's avatar
      Add ability to sort to search API · 1ecfca53
      Dylan Griffith authored
      Sorting already exists for search results from the web. Most of this
      code for searching is shared. Unfortunately in the web search results we
      had to implement this by using a single parameter. In order for our API
      to be in line with other APIs it seemed preferable to implement sorting
      as 2 params (field, direction).
      
      To make matters worse the web sorting does things like `created_asc` for
      sorting by `created_at asc`. So it wasn't even perfectly constructed by
      concatenating field name and direction. Unfortunately the simplest
      option here seemed to be to push the understanding of how to interpret
      these different params into the searching code so it needs to handle 2
      different meanings for the `sort` param.
      
      I considered changing the web code to do a translation of params before
      passing down to the `SearchService` but this was tricky due `params`
      being passed in and also `@sort` is used by the view. We may in future
      be able to refactor this to use 2 params but it seemed tricky to
      introduce now with a single form field.
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  2. 03 Nov, 2020 39 commits