[API Feature Request] Search bar auto-completion support

[tonka3000]

It would be great when their will be some kind of auto-completion support. In #86 I added named label support in the search bar. The user now needs to know the name of the labels, which is not optimal.

GitLab has builtin support on the website.

Describe the feature and the current behavior/state.

Right now there is no auto-completion at all in extensions.

Will this change the current api? How?

It is completely text based, so I would say no.

Who will benefit with this feature?
Everybody how wanna give better user-feedback in the search bar

Any Other info.

[thomaspaulmann]

That's quite something :-) Certainly something cool and desirable to have. Given that we don't support that natively yet, it might take us a while to get there. This looks more like filters or more complex queries instead of just autocompletion. Is this correct?

[tonka3000]

It is a kind of hybrid. It is used for typical thing like label search, author search etc. but also free text for the full text search. In general a faster way to write a correct complex query.

An example query would look like label=bug label!=confirmed author=tonka3000 text

Here is a simple video how this feature looks like on the gitlab website.

Screen.Recording.20.04.2022.17-48-59.-1.mp4