Add project: search project by URL

[humitos]

It would be good to be able to just paste the GitHub URL of the project and get the exact result.

That will be a lot quicker. Besides, it would avoid typos, or even importing repositories with the same name (forks from another organization/user).

Front conversations

[humitos]

It seems the filtering is done in the backend when hitting the API endpoint:

ext-theme/src/js/project/create.js

Line 130 in b1ad973

config.urls.remoterepository_list + "?expand=projects&full_name={query}";

So, if we want to go that way, we would need to add an extra filter in the endpoint: https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api/v3.html#get--api-v3-remote-repositories-

[humitos]

We can probably pass &html_url= instead of full_name since it will work for both since the full name is contained on the html_url field as well.

[agjohnson]

Not necessarily, some users rename their projects to verbose names that don't match their repo name. The change here is likely altering the API to be able to search both/multiple fields. The user isn't super clear, I also interpreted the user's suggestion as not the project creation search but the top navigation search:

I think both could use something similar though.

There are other Project fields that might be useful to query as well. I'm likely describing ?expand=projects&search={query} -- or is there a native DRF version of this?

This should probably be moved to the application. The front end would just use a different field name in the query.

I'm not quite sure about this exact use case, I don't think too many folks are pasting URLs in these boxes, but there is some better UX in searching more fields. I'll put this on the new features milestone, it's not a high priority/bug.