Re: Edit Entries - Filter: Adding a content filter

[David M Johnson <Da...@Sun.COM>]

On Dec 29, 2005, at 11:22 PM, Henri Yandell wrote:
> The edit entries page has a filter on the right hand side which allows
> you to filter by category, status, date etc. There's no way to filter
> by content (be it in the title or the text), and Carrie's asked for
> this feature. Her actual bug/feature-lack report is that there is no
> way for a blog author to search through her entries; just a way for
> users to do it and then only if the blog author has kept the search
> for users.
>
> So I started to look into adding the feature. Pretty simple really,
> standard jump along the tiers adding a new attribute struts code. 4
> files or so to change to get the feature added.
>
> The problem I've hit is that the filter maps pretty simply onto the
> getWeblogEntries set of methods, and these are the methods that (quite
> obviously) are the lynchpin of the whole system. So, do I:
>
> a) Blindly add 'String content' pretty much everywhere.
> b) Create a feature specific part of the system, ie)
> filterWeblogEntries [possibly with a dynamic filter object instead of
> a long parameter list]
> c) Add a separate Search section to the edit-entries page, and hook
> this up to the Lucene stuff.

I would do it by using the same approach as that used on the Comments  
page,
which allows search via keyword and allows next/prev paging through  
entries.

- Dave