[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] enhanced user search

[Rob Crittenden]

Kevin McCarthy wrote:
> Enhanced user search:
> - "configurable" fields to search on  (this is hardcoded but can be
>   moved to the external configuration easily)
> - tokenize search words
> - prioritize exact matches over partial matches
> Other updates:
> - use finally block to return ldap connections
> - update web gui to use new get_user methods

We will need to do searches of groups as well. Can you break out the 
search_pattern-creation code block into a function?

Do we want to do any approximate searching (=~)?

What implication does this have if I know the entry I want.

What I mean is that I want to bring up the record for 'rcrit' so I do a 
search on it and I'd like it to just pop up that record since I have an 
exact match on it. What happens if there is a jrcritenham too? That 
record is going to pop up as well because of the partial searches.

I see why you drop "*" from user input but will that make users mad?

This is, of course assuming that if only one record is found rather than 
displaying a list of users, that user's record is brought up. Not sure 
that is the right thing to do either.

The code generally looks good. We can always just stick it in and see if 
it annoys us too much :-)

rob
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