+ search. it all works now

src/config/common.php

@@ -17,8 +17,9 @@
     'controllerNamespace' => 'hiqdev\assetpackagist\controllers',
     'bootstrap' => ['log'],
     'aliases' => [
-        '@bower' => '@vendor/bower-asset',
-        '@npm'   => '@vendor/npm-asset',
+        'storage'   => dirname(dirname(__DIR__)) . '/web',
+        'npm'       => '@vendor/npm-asset',
+        'bower'     => '@vendor/bower-asset',
     ],
     'components' => [
         'log' => [

src/config/console.php

@@ -11,6 +11,6 @@
 
 return [
     'aliases' => [
-        '@web' => '@prjdir/web',
+        'storage'   => dirname(dirname(__DIR__)) . '/web',
     ],
 ];

src/console/AssetPackageController.php

@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
 namespace hiqdev\assetpackagist\console;
 
 use hiqdev\assetpackagist\models\AssetPackage;
-
 use Yii;
 
 class AssetPackageController extends \yii\console\Controller

src/controllers/SiteController.php

@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@
 
 namespace hiqdev\assetpackagist\controllers;
 
+use hiqdev\assetpackagist\models\AssetPackage;
+use Yii;
+
 class SiteController extends \yii\web\Controller
 {
     public function actionIndex()
@@ -27,4 +30,17 @@ public function actionContact()
     {
         return $this->render('contact');
     }
+
+    public function actionSearch()
+    {
+        $q = Yii::$app->request->get('query') ?: Yii::$app->request->post('query');
+        list($temp, $name) = explode('/', $q);
+        list($type, $temp) = explode('-', $temp);
+        $package = new AssetPackage($type, $name);
+        $binpath = Yii::getAlias('@vendor/bin/hidev');
+        system("$binpath asset-package/update $type $name");
+        $package->load();
+
+        return $this->render('search', compact('package'));
+    }
 }

src/models/AssetPackage.php

@@ -2,9 +2,10 @@
 
 namespace hiqdev\assetpackagist\models;
 
-use hiqdev\assetpackagist\registry\RegistryFactory;
+use Exception;
 use Composer\Factory;
 use Composer\IO\NullIO;
+use hiqdev\assetpackagist\registry\RegistryFactory;
 
 class AssetPackage
 {
@@ -22,10 +23,26 @@ class AssetPackage
 
     public function __construct($type, $name)
     {
+        if (!$this->checkType($type)) {
+            throw new Exception('wrong type');
+        }
+        if (!$this->checkName($name)) {
+            throw new Exception('wrong name');
+        }
         $this->_type = $type;
         $this->_name = $name;
     }
 
+    public function checkType($type)
+    {
+        return $type === 'bower' || $type === 'npm';
+    }
+
+    public function checkName($name)
+    {
+        return strlen($name)>1;
+    }
+
     public function getFullName()
     {
         return static::buildFullName($this->_type, $this->_name);
@@ -55,6 +72,8 @@ static public function getCommonComposer()
     {
         if (static::$_commonComposer === null) {
             static::$_commonComposer = Factory::create(new NullIO());
+            #$factory = new Factory();
+            #static::$_commonComposer = $factory->createComposer(new NullIO(), null, false, null, false);
         }
 
         return static::$_commonComposer;

src/models/Storage.php

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ class Storage
 
     protected function __construct()
     {
-        $this->_path = Yii::getAlias('@web');
+        $this->_path = Yii::getAlias('@storage');
     }
 
     static public function getInstance()

src/views/layouts/_search.php

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
     <br><br><br>
     <div class="container">
         <div class="col-xs-12 col-md-9" style="padding:0px 0 10px 0">
-            <form name="search_query" method="get" action="/search/" id="search-form" autocomplete="off">
+            <form name="search_query" method="get" action="/site/search" id="search-form" autocomplete="off">
                 <input type="search" id="query" name="query" required="required" autocomplete="off" placeholder="bower-asset/package-name" tabindex="1" class="form-control"/>
             </form>
         </div>

src/views/site/search.php

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+<?php
+
+/* @var $this yii\web\View */
+
+use yii\helpers\Html;
+
+$this->title = 'Search';
+$this->params['breadcrumbs'][] = $this->title;
+?>
+<div class="site-about">
+    <h1><?= Html::encode($package->getFullName()) ?></h1>
+
+    <p>
+        <?php $releases = (array)$package->getReleases() ?>
+        <table>
+        <?php foreach ($releases as $version => $release) : ?>
+            <tr>
+                <th><?= $version ?></th>
+                <td><code><?= $release['source']['reference'] ?: $release['dist']['reference'] ?></code></td>
+            </tr>
+        <?php endforeach ?>
+        </table>
+    </p>
+</div>