Full-text search

[joshvillbrandt]

Does the existing filtering infrastructure support full-text searches? I'd be pretty surprised if Eve doesn't already support searching for partial text within a field or within multiple fields. Can somebody help me out?

[joshvillbrandt]

I was getting OperationFailure: database error: invalid operator: $search errors when trying to use the $text query operator. Looks like I needed MongoDB >= 2.4. (My development server automatically had 2.6, so I thought my production server would too.) Anyway, this will hopefully fix it. I'll report back soon!

Assuming this works, we should add some helpful text in the Eve docs.

[joshvillbrandt]

Alright, I've finally put the pieces together!

So first off, I needed to remove '$regex' from MONGO_DBNAME_BLACKLIST setting. The where parameter of my http query ended up looking like this:

{'name': {
    '$regex': search,
    '$options': 'i'
}}

For what it is worth, I was using AngularJS to make the http query. Since Angular strips attributes that starts with $, I also had to pre-stringify the that object using JSON.stringify() befor handing it to Angular. (The Angular team is planning a fix for this in 1.3. See Angular issue #1463.