Feature to use external search package for a custom search for `config.data`

[wanlwanl]

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I'm always frustrated when I try to use an external search package for a custom search for config.data. Need to transform the data to the format that the external search package needed.

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Need a way to override of search operator.
The parameters needed are data, visible columns, invisible columns, data, keyword

Looks like for now I need to disable the default search plugin, and register my custom search plugin.
The code is almost the same, except for the search operator https://github.com/grid-js/gridjs/blob/master/src/operator/search.ts#L16

I expect the search config:

{
  search: {
    enabled: true,
    // columns: { name: "xxx", visible: true/false }
    operator: (data, columns, data, keyword) => {...}
  } 
}

[afshinm]

@wanlwanl got it. so you want to implement and replace your own search function?

[wanlwanl]

@wanlwanl got it. so you want to implement and replace your own search function?
@afshinm
Yes.

[afshinm]

OK I can look into that. Should be fairly straightforward to implement.

[wanlwanl]

Thanks a lot! 👍

[adrp]

I'm wondering if there has been any progress on this. I'm also interested in the feature to allow for multiple keyword search or, alternatively, RegExp search.