Hi,

I'm working on an silverstripe / angularjs application. I would like to know if its possible to create a controller that would handle site search results. I would like to make a webservice that returns the silverstripe search result as json format. Is this possible to do with the ss api?

Thanks!

Yes.
Try something like:

class SiteSearch extends Controller {
	public function index() {
		return Form::create(
			$this, __FUNCTION__,
			FieldList::create(TextField::create('Search')),
			FieldList::create(FormAction::create('doSearch', 'Search'))
		)
		->setFormMethod('GET')
		->disableSecurityToken();
	}
	public function doSearch($data) {
		return json_encode(Things::get()->filterAny([
			'PropertyOne' => $data['Search'],
			'PropertyTwo' => $data['Search'],
			'PropertyThree' => $data['Search']
		])->toArray());
	}
}

Hi,

thanks for your response!

Based on your example, I created an endpoint '/api/search' and this is the get handler I have:

protected function getHandler() {	
		header('Content-Type: application/json');
		
		$query = $_GET['q'];
		$query = 'Contact Us';

		$query_result = SiteTree::get()->filterAny([
			'Title' => $query,
			'Content' => $query
		])->toArray();

		$result = array(
			"result" => $query_result
		);

		// output data in json format.
		echo json_encode($query_result);

		die;
	}

Problem I have it returns one record in this case but doesnt return all object fields. Output Example:

[
{
"destroyed": false,
"class": "Page"
}
]

I'm missing something? Also is there a way to paginate this result?

Thanks!

Generally using a framework just to circumvent it is a bad idea.
You'll make more work for yourself, and not receive any of it's benefits.

http://api.silverstripe.org/3.1/class-SS_HTTPRequest.html

$query = $this->request->getVar('q');

http://api.silverstripe.org/3.1/class-SS_HTTPResponse.html

$this->response->addHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json');

As to the filterAny, try adding some filter modifiers.

$result = SiteTree::get()->filterAny([
'Title:PartialMatch' => $query,
'Content:PartialMatch' => $query
])->toArray()

And as to why it's probably not working, it seems like you've not found any results.

return json_encode(['result'=>$result->exists()?$result:null]);

SS returns a 'null object' pattern to facilitate chaining like what jQuery does. So test that you have results to ensure your result set makes sense.