Added searchTasks API procedure

5 files changed, 88 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 99ddca45..898d2b00 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ New features:
 
 Improvements:
 
+* Added tasks search with the API
 * Added priority field to API procedures
 * Added API procedure "getMemberGroups"
 * Added parameters for overdue tasks notifications: group by projects and send only to managers
diff --git a/app/Api/Base.php b/app/Api/Base.php
index 0959817e..2cc62da8 100644
--- a/app/Api/Base.php
+++ b/app/Api/Base.php
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ abstract class Base extends \Kanboard\Core\Base
         'getBoard',
         'getProjectActivity',
         'getOverdueTasksByProject',
+        'searchTasks',
     );
 
     public function checkProcedurePermission($is_user, $procedure)
diff --git a/app/Api/Task.php b/app/Api/Task.php
index 202e9bb5..1d1211f2 100644
--- a/app/Api/Task.php
+++ b/app/Api/Task.php
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 namespace Kanboard\Api;
 
+use Kanboard\Filter\TaskProjectFilter;
 use Kanboard\Model\Task as TaskModel;
 
 /**
@@ -12,6 +13,12 @@ use Kanboard\Model\Task as TaskModel;
  */
 class Task extends Base
 {
+    public function searchTasks($project_id, $query)
+    {
+        $this->checkProjectPermission($project_id);
+        return $this->taskLexer->build($query)->withFilter(new TaskProjectFilter($project_id))->toArray();
+    }
+
     public function getTask($task_id)
     {
         $this->checkTaskPermission($task_id);
diff --git a/doc/api-task-procedures.markdown b/doc/api-task-procedures.markdown
index d994d662..934b1e09 100644
--- a/doc/api-task-procedures.markdown
+++ b/doc/api-task-procedures.markdown
@@ -636,3 +636,62 @@ Response example:
     "result": 6
 }
 ```
+
+## searchTasks
+
+- Purpose: **Find tasks by using the search engine**
+- Parameters:
+    - **project_id** (integer, required)
+    - **query** (string, required)
+- Result on success: **list of tasks**
+- Result on failure: **false**
+
+Request example:
+
+```json
+{
+    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
+    "method": "searchTasks",
+    "id": 1468511716,
+    "params": {
+        "project_id": 2,
+        "query": "assignee:nobody"
+    }
+}
+```
+
+Response example:
+
+```json
+{
+    "jsonrpc": "2.0",
+    "id": 1468511716,
+    "result": [
+        {
+            "nb_comments": "0",
+            "nb_files": "0",
+            "nb_subtasks": "0",
+            "nb_completed_subtasks": "0",
+            "nb_links": "0",
+            "nb_external_links": "0",
+            "is_milestone": null,
+            "id": "3",
+            "reference": "",
+            "title": "T3",
+            "description": "",
+            "date_creation": "1461365164",
+            "date_modification": "1461365164",
+            "date_completed": null,
+            "date_started": null,
+            "date_due": "0",
+            "color_id": "yellow",
+            "project_id": "2",
+            "column_id": "5",
+            "swimlane_id": "0",
+            "owner_id": "0",
+            "creator_id": "0"
+            // ...
+         }
+    ]
+}
+```
diff --git a/tests/integration/TaskTest.php b/tests/integration/TaskTest.php
index 39fe41bf..0c398761 100644
--- a/tests/integration/TaskTest.php
+++ b/tests/integration/TaskTest.php
@@ -4,6 +4,26 @@ require_once __DIR__.'/Base.php';
 
 class TaskTest extends Base
 {
+    public function testSearchTasks()
+    {
+        $project_id1 = $this->app->createProject('My project');
+        $project_id2 = $this->app->createProject('My project');
+        $this->assertNotFalse($project_id1);
+        $this->assertNotFalse($project_id2);
+
+        $this->assertNotFalse($this->app->createTask(array('project_id' => $project_id1, 'title' => 'T1')));
+        $this->assertNotFalse($this->app->createTask(array('project_id' => $project_id1, 'title' => 'T2')));
+        $this->assertNotFalse($this->app->createTask(array('project_id' => $project_id2, 'title' => 'T3')));
+
+        $tasks = $this->app->searchTasks($project_id1, 't2');
+        $this->assertCount(1, $tasks);
+        $this->assertEquals('T2', $tasks[0]['title']);
+
+        $tasks = $this->app->searchTasks(array('project_id' => $project_id2, 'query' => 'assignee:nobody'));
+        $this->assertCount(1, $tasks);
+        $this->assertEquals('T3', $tasks[0]['title']);
+    }
+
     public function testPriorityAttribute()
     {
         $project_id = $this->app->createProject('My project');