# Community Search

We are planning a new unified search engine for Hub as part
of Patner Marketplace feature, however this will take some
time to come out as it aims to be a platform component.

## Temporary Community Search

To solve the Community Galaxy problem ASAP we come with a
plan to provide a imediate solution before rolling out the
complete search engine.

This is going to be a very basic search endpoint to replace
the current search we have in Roles and Collections.

## Unified search for community

The proposal is to replace the https://galaxy.ansible.com/ui/search/
with results coming from `api/_ui/v1/search`

GALAXY                                       Login
--------------------------------------------------
Search
[  nginx         ]🔎 

>> Filters
Type:        [collection | role]
Tag:         [ text ]
Platform:    [Ubuntu, Fedora, Windows + AWS, Azure...]
Deprecated:  [True, False]

>> Sort
Name
Namespace
Download Count

-------------------------------------------------
|  Results: 40   - page 1 / 4                   |
|-----------------------------------------------|
| nginx | metadata  | collection                |
| nginx | metadata  | role                      |
| nginx | metadata  | role                      |
-------------------------------------------------
|                   |  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6         |
-------------------------------------------------

## Implementation

- Community galaxy only (endpoint disabled on PAH)
- A bare Django APIView with filtering and pagination
- No pulp
- No RBAC
- Combination of 2 querysets as the filtered result

roles = LegacyRole.objects.filter(...).annotate(...)
collections = Collection.objects.filter(...).annotate(...)

result = roles | collections  # same as roles.union(collections)
result = result.order_by(...)
render_as_json(paginated(results))

## Results

Uniform JSON result combining content from both models

{
    "meta": {"count": 40},
    "links": {....},
    "data": [
        {"type": "role", "name": "nginx", ...},
        {"type": "collection", "name": "nginx", ...},
    ]
}