how to use multi-fields search for issues in REST api?

hi guys!

someone submitted a feature request for Redmine Java library to support free-form search with multiple params like "f[]".
I added support for this, but I do not see any documentation on how to use that free-form search in Redmine REST API.

I have this integration test that fails because it returns more than 1 issue, which indicates that search terms I used result in "or" operation rather than expected "and". this test is in Java, but you can see the idea in it - the search part is not specific to any language, it is specific to Redmine only.

can someone please post a link to a page describing how to use free-form search for redmine objects (like "f[]", "op[..]=xyz", "and", "or", etc)?

  /**
     * regression test for https://github.com/taskadapter/redmine-java-api/issues/12 and
     * https://github.com/taskadapter/redmine-java-api/issues/215
     */

    public void issuesCanBeFoundByMultiQuerySearch() throws RedmineException {

        final Issue issue1 = IssueFactory.create(projectId, "summary 1 here");
        issue1.setDescription("abc description");
        issueManager.createIssue(issue1);

        final Issue issue2 = IssueFactory.create(projectId, "summary 2 here");
        issue2.setDescription("def totally different description");
        issueManager.createIssue(issue2);

        final Issue issue3 = IssueFactory.create(projectId, "another");
        issue3.setDescription("abc");
        issueManager.createIssue(issue3);

        Params params = new Params()
                .add("set_filter", "1")
                .add("f[]", "summary")
                .add("op[summary]", "~")
                .add("v[summary]", "another")
                .add("f[]", "description")
                .add("op[description]", "~")
                .add("v[description][]", "abc");

        final ResultsWrapper<Issue> list = issueManager.getIssues(params);
        // only 1 issue must be found
        assertThat(list.getResults()).hasSize(1);
    }

Replies (1)

RE: how to use multi-fields search for issues in REST api? - Added by Alex Last over 5 years ago

I found this combination of params to work:

   
    public void issuesCanBeFoundByMultiQuerySearch() throws RedmineException {
        final Issue issue1 = IssueFactory.create(projectId, "summary 1 here");
        issueManager.createIssue(issue1);
        final Issue issue2 = IssueFactory.create(projectId, "summary 2 here");
        issueManager.createIssue(issue2);
        final Issue issue3 = IssueFactory.create(projectId, "another");
        issueManager.createIssue(issue3);

        final User currentUser = userManager.getCurrentUser();
        Params params = new Params()
                .add("set_filter", "1")
                .add("f[]", "subject")
                .add("op[subject]", "~")
                .add("v[subject][]", "another")
                .add("f[]", "author_id")
                .add("op[author_id]", "~")
                .add("v[author_id][]", currentUser.getId()+"");
        final ResultsWrapper<Issue> list = issueManager.getIssues(params);
        // only 1 issue must be found
        assertThat(list.getResults()).hasSize(1);
    }

(1-1/1)