NAME

Jifty::Action::Record::Search

DESCRIPTION

The class is a base class for Jifty::Actions that serve to provide an interface to general searches through Jifty::Record objects. To use it, subclass it and override the record_class method to return the fully qualified name of the model to do searches over.

METHODS

arguments

Remove validators from arguments, as well as ``mandatory'' restrictions. Remove any arguments that render as password fields, or refer to collections.

Generate additional search arguments for each field based on the following criteria:

text or varchar fields

Create field_contains and field_lacks arguments.

date, or timestamp fields

Create field_before and field_after ar

integer fields

Generate field_lt and field_gt arguments

take_action

Return a collection with the result of the search specified by the given arguments.

We interpret a undef argument as SQL NULL, and ignore empty or non-present arguments.

SEE ALSO

Jifty::Action::Record, Jifty::Collection