Implement Advanced Search Capabilities

[DarthHater]

Description

Currently the advance search has capabilities that this SPA does not, we require to investigate whether this is still needed.

These capabilities include:

• Searching by Classpath/Classname?
• Searching by SHA

Good things to check :

• Google analytics for current site.
• User check (maybe Joel would be best to confirm with), on what is being used.

Acceptance Criteria

• implement advance search capabilities
• bounce around idea's on UI for this.

Please leave a comment or reaction to this issue if you'd benefit from this functionality!

[fbricon]

Some years ago, I started to implement an artifact search in m2e, based on the currently exposed solr API (See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=478647, fbricon/m2e-core@f46db07)

I'm not interested in the UI part of the Advanced search capabilities much, but definitely in some REST endpoints. What I'd like to see, available for 3rd party tools:

• groupId search: currently the search returns N artifacts of the 1st groupIds matching a search query, but we're really interested in the actual N groupIds. See fbricon/m2e-core@f46db07#diff-2f9c1bb9a3e21f1fc5d0925c48b9f55eR67
• artifact search per artifactId and optional groupId
• classifier search per artifactId, groupId and version
• version search per artifactId, groupId

[DarthHater]

Thanks for the info @fbricon ! The work to do it won't likely be a part of this project (it'll be on the backend portion that powers all this), I'll check with the people working on that and see what they think!

[fbricon]

@DarthHater ok thanks. Would be nice to have an issue tracker for the backend too ;-)

[SirMaster]

We now support advanced search on beta.

See here a small demo :
advanced-search.mp4.zip

[MrIndiaDev]

It does not seems like an advance search, or may be user experience could be much better.
I vote for adding a Advance Search Builder like old one ( of course improved ).