feat(filters): add a filterPredicate option for user customization

docs/TOC.md

@@ -23,12 +23,12 @@
   * [LongText (textarea)](column-functionalities/editors/LongText-Editor-(textarea).md)
   * [Select Dropdown Editor (single/multiple)](column-functionalities/editors/Select-Dropdown-Editor-(single,multiple).md)
 * [Filters](column-functionalities/filters/README.md)
-  * [Input Filter (default)](column-functionalities/filters/Input-Filter.md)
-  * [Select Filter (dropdown)](column-functionalities/filters/Select-Filter.md)
-  * [Compound Filters](column-functionalities/filters/Compound-Filters.md)
-  * [Range Filters](column-functionalities/filters/Range-Filters.md)
-  * [Styling Filled Filters](column-functionalities/filters/Styling-Filled-Filters.md)
-  * [Single Search Filter](column-functionalities/filters/Single-Search-Filter.md)
+  * [Input Filter (default)](column-functionalities/filters/input-filter.md)
+  * [Select Filter (dropdown)](column-functionalities/filters/select-filter.md)
+  * [Compound Filters](column-functionalities/filters/compound-filters.md)
+  * [Range Filters](column-functionalities/filters/range-filters.md)
+  * [Styling Filled Filters](column-functionalities/filters/styling-filled-filters.md)
+  * [Single Search Filter](column-functionalities/filters/single-search-filter.md)
 * [Formatters](column-functionalities/Formatters.md)
 * [Sorting](column-functionalities/Sorting.md)
 

docs/column-functionalities/filters/Compound-Filters.md → docs/column-functionalities/filters/compound-filters.md

@@ -5,9 +5,10 @@
 - [Compound Date Filter](#how-to-use-compounddate-filter)
 - [Compound Operator List (custom list)](#compound-operator-list-custom-list)
 - [Compound Operator Alternate Texts](#compound-operator-alternate-texts)
-- [Filter Complex Object](../Input-Filter.md#how-to-filter-complex-objects)
-- [Update Filters Dynamically](../Input-Filter.md#update-filters-dynamically)
+- [Filter Complex Object](input-filter.md#how-to-filter-complex-objects)
+- [Update Filters Dynamically](input-filter.md#update-filters-dynamically)
 - [How to avoid filtering when only Operator dropdown is changed?](#how-to-avoid-filtering-when-only-operator-dropdown-is-changed)
+- [Custom Filter Predicate](input-filter.md#custom-filter-predicate)
 
 ### Description
 Compound filters are a combination of 2 elements (Operator Select + Input Filter) used as a filter on a column. This is very useful to make it obvious to the user that there are Operator available and even more useful with a date picker (`Vanilla-Calendar`).

docs/column-functionalities/filters/Input-Filter.md → docs/column-functionalities/filters/input-filter.md

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 - [Dynamic Query Field](#dynamic-query-field)
 - [Debounce/Throttle Text Search (wait for user to stop typing before filtering)](#debouncethrottle-text-search-wait-for-user-to-stop-typing-before-filtering)
 - [Ignore Locale Accent in Text Filter/Sorting](#ignore-locale-accent-in-text-filtersorting)
+- [Custom Filter Predicate](#custom-filter-predicate)
 
 ### Description
 Input filter is the default filter when enabling filters.
@@ -167,4 +168,46 @@ You can ignore latin accent (or any other language accent) in text filter via th
 this.gridOptions = {
    ignoreAccentOnStringFilterAndSort: true,
 };
-```
+```
+
+### Custom Filter Predicate
+You can provide a custom predicate by using the `filterPredicate` when defining your `filter`, the callback will provide you with 2 arguments (`dataContext` and `searchFilterArgs`). The `searchFilterArgs` will provide you more info about the filter itself (like parsed operator, search terms, column definition, column id and type as well). For example
+
+```ts
+this.columnDefinitions = [
+  {
+    id: 'title', name: 'Title', field: 'title', sortable: true,
+    filterable: true, type: FieldType.string,
+    filter: {
+      model: Filters.inputText,
+      // you can use your own custom filter predicate when built-in filters aren't working for you
+      // for example the example below will function similarly to an SQL LIKE to answer this SO: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78471412/angular-slickgrid-filter
+      filterPredicate: (dataContext, searchFilterArgs) => {
+        const searchVals = (searchFilterArgs.parsedSearchTerms || []) as SearchTerm[];
+        if (searchVals?.length) {
+          const columnId = searchFilterArgs.columnId;
+          const searchVal = searchVals[0] as string;
+          const likeMatches = searchVal.split('%');
+          if (likeMatches.length > 3) {
+            // for matches like "%Ta%10%" will return text that starts with "Ta" and ends with "10" (e.g. "Task 10", "Task 110", "Task 210")
+            const [_, start, end] = likeMatches;
+            return dataContext[columnId].startsWith(start) && dataContext[columnId].endsWith(end);
+          } else if (likeMatches.length > 2) {
+            // for matches like "%Ta%10%" will return text that starts with "Ta" and contains "10" (e.g. "Task 10", "Task 100", "Task 101")
+            const [_, start, contain] = likeMatches;
+            return dataContext[columnId].startsWith(start) && dataContext[columnId].includes(contain);
+          }
+          // anything else is also a contains
+          return dataContext[columnId].includes(searchVal);
+        }
+        // if we fall here then the value is not consider to be filtered out
+        return true;
+      },
+    },
+  },
+];
+```
+
+The custom filter predicate above was to answer a Stack Overflow question and will work like an SQL LIKE matcher (it's not perfect and probably requires more work but is enough to demo custom predicate)
+
+![image](https://github.com/ghiscoding/slickgrid-universal/assets/643976/3e77774e-3a9f-4ca4-bca7-50a033a4b48d)

docs/column-functionalities/filters/Range-Filters.md → docs/column-functionalities/filters/range-filters.md

@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@
 - [Using a Slider Range](#using-a-slider-range-filter)
   - [Filter Options](#filter-options)
 - [Using a Date Range](#using-a-date-range-filter)
-- [Update Filters Dynamically](Input-Filter.md#update-filters-dynamically)
+- [Update Filters Dynamically](input-filter.md#update-filters-dynamically)
+- [Custom Filter Predicate](input-filter.md#custom-filter-predicate)
 
 ### Introduction
 Range filters allows you to search for a value between 2 min/max values, the 2 most common use case would be to filter between 2 numbers or dates, you can do that with the Slider & Date Range Filters. The range can also be defined as inclusive (`>= 0 and <= 10`) or exclusive (`> 0 and < 10`), the default is exclusive but you can change that, see below for more info.

docs/column-functionalities/filters/Select-Filter.md → docs/column-functionalities/filters/select-filter.md

@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@
   - [Filter Options (`MultipleSelectOption` interface)](#filter-options-multipleselectoption-interface)
   - [Display shorter selected label text](#display-shorter-selected-label-text)
 - [Query against a different field](#query-against-another-field-property)
-- [Update Filters Dynamically](Input-Filter.md#update-filters-dynamically)
+- [Update Filters Dynamically](input-filter.md#update-filters-dynamically)
+- [Custom Filter Predicate](input-filter.md#custom-filter-predicate)
 
 ### Demo
 [Demo Page](https://ghiscoding.github.io/slickgrid-universal/#/example10) / [Demo Component](https://github.com/ghiscoding/slickgrid-universal/blob/master/examples/webpack-demo-vanilla-bundle/src/examples/example10.ts)

docs/column-functionalities/filters/Single-Search-Filter.md → docs/column-functionalities/filters/single-search-filter.md

@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
 #### Index
-- [Update Filters Dynamically](Input-Filter.md#update-filters-dynamically)
+- [Update Filters Dynamically](input-filter.md#update-filters-dynamically)
+- [Custom Filter Predicate](input-filter.md#custom-filter-predicate)
 
 ### Description
-Some users might want to have 1 main single search for filtering the grid data instead of using multiple column filters. You can see a demo of that below
+Some users might want to have 1 main single search for filtering the grid data instead of using multiple column filters. You can see a demo of that below.
+
+> **Note** the code below came from a different SlickGrid framework, just change the `.bind` to whatever framework you use with the appropriate code change. It's only meant to show roughly how to do it.
 
 ### Code Sample
 #### View
@@ -33,19 +36,19 @@ Some users might want to have 1 main single search for filtering the grid data i
            value.bind="searchValue">
   </form>
 
-<aurelia-slickgrid grid-id="grid21"
-                   column-definitions.bind="columnDefinitions"
-                   grid-options.bind="gridOptions"
-                   dataset.bind="dataset">
-</aurelia-slickgrid>
+<div grid-id="grid21"
+    column-definitions.bind="columnDefinitions"
+    grid-options.bind="gridOptions"
+    dataset.bind="dataset">
+</div>
 ```
 
 ##### ViewModel
 ```ts
 export class MyExample {
-  @bindable() selectedColumn: Column;
-  @bindable() selectedOperator: string;
-  @bindable() searchValue: string;
+  selectedColumn: Column;
+  selectedOperator: string;
+  searchValue: string;
 
   grid: SlickGrid;
   dataView: SlickDataView;

examples/vite-demo-vanilla-bundle/src/examples/example14.ts

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import {
   type GridOption,
   type GridStateChange,
   type LongTextEditorOption,
+  type SearchTerm,
   SlickGlobalEditorLock,
   type SliderRangeOption,
   SortComparers,
@@ -149,7 +150,32 @@ export default class Example14 {
         resizeCalcWidthRatio: 1, // default ratio is ~0.9 for string but since our text is all uppercase then a higher ratio is needed
         resizeMaxWidthThreshold: 200,
         filterable: true, columnGroup: 'Common Factor',
-        filter: { model: Filters.compoundInputText },
+        filter: {
+          model: Filters.inputText,
+          // you can use your own custom filter predicate when built-in filters aren't working for you
+          // for example the example below will function similarly to an SQL LIKE to answer this SO: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78471412/angular-slickgrid-filter
+          filterPredicate: (dataContext, searchFilterArgs) => {
+            const searchVals = (searchFilterArgs.parsedSearchTerms || []) as SearchTerm[];
+            if (searchVals?.length) {
+              const columnId = searchFilterArgs.columnId;
+              const searchVal = searchVals[0] as string;
+              const likeMatches = searchVal.split('%');
+              if (likeMatches.length > 3) {
+                // for matches like "%Ta%10%" will return text that starts with "Ta" and ends with "10" (e.g. "Task 10", "Task 110", "Task 210")
+                const [_, start, end] = likeMatches;
+                return dataContext[columnId].startsWith(start) && dataContext[columnId].endsWith(end);
+              } else if (likeMatches.length > 2) {
+                // for matches like "%Ta%10%" will return text that starts with "Ta" and contains "10" (e.g. "Task 10", "Task 100", "Task 101")
+                const [_, start, contain] = likeMatches;
+                return dataContext[columnId].startsWith(start) && dataContext[columnId].includes(contain);
+              }
+              // anything else is also a contains
+              return dataContext[columnId].includes(searchVal);
+            }
+            // if we fall here then the value is not consider to be filtered out
+            return true;
+          },
+        },
         editor: {
           model: Editors.longText, required: true, alwaysSaveOnEnterKey: true,
           maxLength: 12,
@@ -288,7 +314,7 @@ export default class Example14 {
         },
         filter: {
           model: Filters.inputText,
-          // placeholder: '🔎︎ search city',
+          // placeholder: '🔎︎ search product',
           type: FieldType.string,
           queryField: 'product.itemName',
         }

packages/common/src/interfaces/columnEditor.interface.ts

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ export interface ColumnEditor {
    */
   collection?: any[];
 
-  /** We could filter some 1 or more items from the collection */
+  /** We could filter 1 or more items from the collection (e.g. filter out some items from the select filter) */
   collectionFilterBy?: CollectionFilterBy | CollectionFilterBy[];
 
   /** Options to change the behavior of the "collection" */

packages/common/src/interfaces/columnFilter.interface.ts

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import type {
   Filter,
   FilterConstructor,
   OperatorDetail,
+  SearchColumnFilter,
 } from './index';
 import type { Observable, Subject } from '../services/rxjsFacade';
 
@@ -57,7 +58,7 @@ export interface ColumnFilter {
   /** Options to change the behavior of the "collection" */
   collectionOptions?: CollectionOption;
 
-  /** We could filter some 1 or more items from the collection */
+  /** We could filter 1 or more items from the collection (e.g. filter out some items from the select filter) */
   collectionFilterBy?: CollectionFilterBy | CollectionFilterBy[];
 
   /** We could sort the collection by 1 or more properties, or by translated value(s) when enableTranslateLabel is True */
@@ -94,6 +95,12 @@ export interface ColumnFilter {
    */
   filterOptions?: any;
 
+  /**
+   * Custom Filter predicate function to use instead of the built-in filters
+   * NOTE: currently only works with local/JSON dataset, meaning no backend service implementation yet.
+   */
+  filterPredicate?: (dataContext: any, searchFilterArgs: SearchColumnFilter) => boolean;
+
   /**
    * Use "params" to pass any type of arguments to your Custom Filter
    * for example, to pass a second collection to a select Filter we can type this:

packages/common/src/interfaces/searchColumnFilter.interface.ts

@@ -30,9 +30,9 @@ export interface SearchColumnFilter {
   /** Last search input character when it is identified as "*" representing startsWith */
   searchInputLastChar?: string;
 
-  /** What is the Field Type that can be used by the Filter (as precedence over the "type" set the column definition) */
+  /** What is the Field Type that can be used by the Filter (as precedence over the "type" defined in the column definition) */
   type: typeof FieldType[keyof typeof FieldType];
 
-  /** Target element selector from which the filter was triggered from. */
+  /** DOM target element selector from which the filter was triggered from. */
   targetSelector?: string;
 }

packages/common/src/services/__tests__/filter.service.spec.ts

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import 'jest-extended';
 import { of, throwError } from 'rxjs';
 import { BasePubSubService } from '@slickgrid-universal/event-pub-sub';
 
@@ -663,6 +664,50 @@ describe('FilterService', () => {
       mockItem1 = { firstName: 'John', lastName: 'Doe', fullName: 'John Doe', age: 26, address: { zip: 123456 } };
     });
 
+    it('should run "filterPredicate" when provided by the user as a custom filter callback and return True when predicate returns true', () => {
+      const columnId = 'firstName';
+      const searchTerms = ['John'];
+      const mockColumn1 = {
+        id: columnId, field: columnId, filterable: true,
+        filter: {
+          model: Filters.inputText,
+          filterPredicate: (dataContext, searchFilterArgs) => {
+            return dataContext[columnId] === searchFilterArgs.parsedSearchTerms![0];
+          }
+        }
+      } as Column;
+      jest.spyOn(gridStub, 'getColumns').mockReturnValue([mockColumn1]);
+
+      service.init(gridStub);
+      const parsedSearchTerms = getParsedSearchTermsByFieldType(searchTerms, 'text');
+      const columnFilters = { firstName: { columnDef: mockColumn1, columnId: 'firstName', operator: 'EQ', searchTerms, parsedSearchTerms, type: FieldType.string } } as ColumnFilters;
+      const output = service.customLocalFilter(mockItem1, { dataView: dataViewStub, grid: gridStub, columnFilters });
+
+      expect(output).toBe(true);
+    });
+
+    it('should run "filterPredicate" when provided by the user as a custom filter callback and return False when predicate returns false', () => {
+      const columnId = 'firstName';
+      const searchTerms = ['JANE'];
+      const mockColumn1 = {
+        id: columnId, field: columnId, filterable: true,
+        filter: {
+          model: Filters.inputText,
+          filterPredicate: (dataContext, searchFilterArgs) => {
+            return dataContext[columnId] === searchFilterArgs.parsedSearchTerms![0];
+          }
+        }
+      } as Column;
+      jest.spyOn(gridStub, 'getColumns').mockReturnValue([mockColumn1]);
+
+      service.init(gridStub);
+      const parsedSearchTerms = getParsedSearchTermsByFieldType(searchTerms, 'text');
+      const columnFilters = { firstName: { columnDef: mockColumn1, columnId: 'firstName', operator: 'EQ', searchTerms, parsedSearchTerms, type: FieldType.string } } as ColumnFilters;
+      const output = service.customLocalFilter(mockItem1, { dataView: dataViewStub, grid: gridStub, columnFilters });
+
+      expect(output).toBe(false);
+    });
+
     it('should execute "getParsedSearchTermsByFieldType" once if the first "customLocalFilter" is executed without parsedSearchTerms at the beginning', () => {
       const searchTerms = ['John'];
       const mockColumn1 = { id: 'firstName', field: 'firstName', filterable: true } as Column;