Search and filtering for endpoints

[bartekpacia]

Is your feature request related to a problem?
I was making a write-up about best REST practices and something essential came to my mind. A functionality so common that it's surprising we don't have it - search.

Describe the solution you'd like
I'd like features listed above to be supported in all endpoints (if applicable). It could be done using BaseModel.filter() method that Flask-SQLAlchemy provides.

Search URL examples

/users?username=john
/users?location=us
/mentorship_relation/{request_id}/tasks?title=learn_react

Describe alternatives you've considered
We can do all this stuff on the client side and considering current scale of the project, it's not really a big deal. However, serious problems will arise if the number of users (or data in general) gets increased.

[isabelcosta]

Thank you @NenadPantelic for bringing this to our attention and @devkapilbansal for confirming it! as you said on Zulip, these are the issues related:

• Add query parameter to filter users by verification state to GET /users API #403
• Add query parameter to sort users for GET /users and GET /users/verified APIs #420
• Add to List Users API the ability to filter users by skills #759
• Add to List Users API the ability to filter users by location #760

[NenadPantelic]

No prob, can I take this in that case? 😄

[devkapilbansal]

Sure @NenadPantelic

[b-thebest]

Can I take up this issue in case of not completed

[NenadPantelic]

I'm working on it, was a bit busy with some private things these days

[NenadPantelic]

I was occupied with other issues these days, hope to the PR in next two days.

[vj-codes]

@NenadPantelic any updates?
If there's no response from @NenadPantelic ,
@b-thebest are you still interested to work on this?

[NenadPantelic]

Hey @vj-codes. Sorry, my timetable is full, I have a lot of things I'm working on at the moment. If @b-thebest or someone else is willing to, go ahead, the issue is yours. I'll ping you when I got some time if the issue is not solved at that point.