Mock search filter using json-server

Question

I have routes.json and db.json

Route

  "/api/*/_search?*=:searchstring": "/$1/?$2_like=:searchstring",
  "/api/*": "/$1"

DB.json

 {
  "cats": {
    "cats": []
  },
  "bats": [],
  "recordList": {
    "records": [
      {id:1, name: 'abc'},
      {id:2, name: 'def'},
      {id:3, name: 'ghi'}
    ]
  }
}

Absolutely fine fetching the record list with the above configurations.

Need to understand how to mock for the search filter call below:

http:localhost:3001/api/_search?name=abc

Updated the routes to:

{
  "/api/*": "/$1",
  "/api/_search?name_like": "/$1"
}

Following this link: https://github.com/typicode/json-server/issues/654#issuecomment-339098881

But not hitting the config URL defined, what am I doing wrong? Am I missing something here? The search term is dynamic, hence the value passed should be acceptable from a variable only but in the comment it is static. Kindly assist with this if anyone had similar issues and resolved

If 'abc' is searched, it should return

{
  records: [{id: 1, name: 'abc'}]
}

Answer 1

You need to write your search route like this:

{
  "/api/records/_search?name=:searchstring": "/records/?name_like=:searchstring"
}

Or even better, you can parametrize with * to $1 replacement, thus you will be able to search for any parameter in query, and in any dataset, records or other:

{
  "/api/*/_search?*=:searchstring": "/$1/?$2_like=:searchstring",
  "/api/*": "/$1"
}

Afterwards your request to http://localhost:3001/api/records/_search?name=ab will be with response:

[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "name": "abc"
  }
]

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