Improve spout filters

[jtojnar]

I initially wanted to add more advanced filters as part of #858 but since it is a feature many people including me want, I decided it does not make sense to wait for such complex feature to implement this.

I was imagining some graphical filter builder but simple text expressions à la GMail would probably be sufficient for majority of people.

Various considerations:

• Allow filtering by item category (Allow filtering by item category #753)
• Allow filtering by author (Include Author in Searches #1117)
• Allow to use the same expression language in search

We first need to design the expression language, then the implementation would be rather simple.

Things to investigate:

• GMail-like expressions
  • https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7190?hl=en&visit_id=637008586279581028-1205226982&rd=1
  • ➖ weird syntax
• XPath 1.0
  • ➕ standard
  • ➖ needs converting spout data to XML
  • ❔ maybe too powerful
  • ❔ maybe too slow
• XPath 2.0
  • ❔ maybe too powerful
  • ❔ maybe too slow
  • ➖ external library will be needed (e.g. https://packagist.org/packages/lyquidity/xpath2)
• Some custom subset of combination of the two
• What our competition does?

[aslmx]

Any news here? :)

[jtojnar]

#1423 implemented support for title, content, author and category filters à la GMail. Though it allows only a single filter at the moment.