NAME

       Jifty::Action::Record::Search - Automagic search action

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", "char" or "varchar" fields
           Create "field"_contains and "field"_lacks arguments

       "date", or "timestamp" fields
           Create "field"_before, "field"_after, "field"_since and "field"_until arguments.

       "integer", "float", "double", "decimal" or "numeric" fields
           Generate "field"_lt, "field"_gt, "field"_le and "field"_ge arguments, as well as a
           "field"_dwim field that accepts a prefixed comparison operator in the search value,
           such as ">100" and "!100".

   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

LICENSE

       Jifty is Copyright 2005-2010 Best Practical Solutions, LLC.  Jifty is distributed under
       the same terms as Perl itself.