server/AyaNova/Controllers/PickListController.cs

@@ -44,10 +44,18 @@ namespace AyaNova.Api.Controllers
 
         /// <summary>
         /// Get picklist of all Active objects of type specified and filtered by query specified
+        /// NOTE: Query is valid only if:
+        /// it is an empty string indicating not filtered just selected
+        /// if not an empty string, it has at most two space separated strings and one of them is a special TAG specific query that starts with two consecutive periods 
+        /// i.e. "some" is valid (single query on all templated fields) 
+        /// "..zon some" is valid (all tags like zon and all template fields like some)
+        /// "zon some" is NOT valid (missing TAGS indicator), "..zone some re" is NOT valid (too many strings)
         /// Note that this list is capped automatically to return no more than 100 results
         /// </summary>
         /// <param name="ayaType">The AyaType object type to select from</param>
-        /// <param name="query">The query to filter the returned list by</param>
+        /// <param name="query">The query to filter the returned list by. Query text as provided will be case sensitively matched to all templated fields. 
+        /// Independantely of this, if an addition space separated string that begins with two consecutive periods is encountered that will be considered a separate match to the TAGS collection of each object
+        /// So a tag query might be entered as "..zon some" which would match all tags LIKE 'zon' and template fields LIKE 'some'</param>
         /// <param name="inactive">Include inactive objects in the returned list </param>
         /// <returns>Filtered list</returns>
         [HttpGet("List")]
@@ -68,9 +76,43 @@ namespace AyaNova.Api.Controllers
             if (!ModelState.IsValid)
                 return BadRequest(new ApiErrorResponse(ModelState));
 
+          //Here need to handle scenario of badly formed query so user knows they did it wrong and doesn't just assume it's not there
+          /*
+            string TagSpecificQuery=string.Empty;
+
+             //determine if this is a tag query
+             if(HasAutoCompleteQuery){
+                 if(autoCompleteQuery.Contains(" ")){
+                     //split the query on space
+                    var querySegments=autoCompleteQuery.Split(' ');
+                     //users may type several spaces in a regular query, so ignore that and only use the first two segments
+                    if(querySegments[0].Contains("..")){
+                        TagSpecificQuery=querySegments[0].Replace("..","");
+                        //the second string is considered the 
+                        autoCompleteQuery=querySegments[1];
+                    }else{
+
+                    }
+
+                 }
+             }
+          */  
+          
             var UserRoles = UserRolesFromContext.Roles(HttpContext.Items);
 
             var o = await biz.GetPickListAsync(ayaType, query, inactive, UserRoles);
+
+/* this is how a bad validation is handled in a widget post
+//we need to validate the query and return an explanation if it's bad so user doesn't get confused and think theya re doing the right thing but not getting results anyway
+ //Create and validate
+            Widget o = await biz.CreateAsync(inObj);
+            if (o == null)
+                return BadRequest(new ApiErrorResponse(biz.Errors));
+            else
+                return CreatedAtAction(nameof(WidgetController.GetWidget), new { id = o.Id, version = apiVersion.ToString() }, new ApiCreatedResponse(o));
+
+*/
+
             if (o == null)
                 return NotFound(new ApiErrorResponse(ApiErrorCode.NOT_FOUND));
 

server/AyaNova/PickList/PickListSqlBuilder.cs

@@ -15,12 +15,13 @@ namespace AyaNova.PickList
         const int MAXIMUM_RESULT_COUNT = 100;
 
         //Build the query for a picklist request
-        internal static string Build(IAyaPickList pickList, List<string> templateColumnNames, string autoCompleteQuery, bool IncludeInactive)
+        internal static string Build(IAyaPickList pickList, List<string> templateColumnNames, string autoCompleteQuery, string tagSpecificQuery, bool IncludeInactive)
         {
 
-
+       
             //determine this in advance as it will be used in a loop later
             bool HasAutoCompleteQuery = !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(autoCompleteQuery);
+          
 
             //lists to collect the clauses so to avoid comma fuckery
             List<string> lSelect = new List<string>();