Search documentation

The /search path accepts a query string with a name or id parameter and will return all the immediate links related to that person. That is: the person's supervisor, mentor, who they supervised and who they mentored. The people array and institution array normalize the data to avoid duplications.

example

curl -X GET "localhost:3000/search?name=todd%20lowary"

{  
   "mentors":[  
      {  
         "id":1,
         "mentor_name":"david bundle",
         "person_id":1,
         "postdoc_id":1,
         "mentor_id":4,
         "approved":true
      },
      {  
         "id":2,
         "mentor_name":"morten meldel",
         "person_id":1,
         "postdoc_id":2,
         "mentor_id":null,
         "approved":true
      }
   ],
   "mentored":[  

   ],
   "supervisors":[  
      {  
         "id":1,
         "supervisor_name":"ole hindsgaul",
         "approved":true,
         "degree_id":1,
         "person_id":1,
         "supervisor_id":3
      }
   ],
   "supervised":[  
      {  
         "id":2,
         "supervisor_name":"todd lowary",
         "approved":true,
         "degree_id":2,
         "person_id":2,
         "supervisor_id":1
      }
   ],
   "people":[  
      {  
         "id":1,
         "name":"todd lowary",
         "position":"professor",
         "approved":true,
         "institution_id":1
      },
      {  
         "id":2,
         "name":"wei shi",
         "position":"assistant professor",
         "approved":true,
         "institution_id":3
      },
      {  
         "id":3,
         "name":"ole hindsgaul",
         "position":"professor emeritus",
         "approved":true,
         "institution_id":1
      },
      {  
         "id":4,
         "name":"david bundle",
         "position":"professor emeritus",
         "approved":true,
         "institution_id":1
      }
   ],
   "institutions":[  
      {  
         "id":1,
         "name":"university of alberta",
         "approved":true
      },
      {  
         "id":3,
         "name":"university of arkansas",
         "approved":true
      }
   ]
}

notice: the %20 code in place of the space character.

using curl -X GET "localhost:3000/search?id=1" will attain the same result.