Merge pull request #3274 from Minnozz/author-search

Add search for author

bookwyrm/views/search.py

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 """ search views"""
+
 import re
 
 from django.contrib.postgres.search import TrigramSimilarity
@@ -39,6 +40,7 @@ class Search(View):
 
         endpoints = {
             "book": book_search,
+            "author": author_search,
             "user": user_search,
             "list": list_search,
         }
@@ -90,6 +92,31 @@ def book_search(request):
     return TemplateResponse(request, "search/book.html", data)
 
 
+def author_search(request):
+    """search for an author"""
+    query = request.GET.get("q")
+    query = query.strip()
+    data = {"type": "author", "query": query}
+
+    results = (
+        models.Author.objects.annotate(
+            similarity=TrigramSimilarity("name", query),
+        )
+        .filter(
+            similarity__gt=0.1,
+        )
+        .order_by("-similarity")
+    )
+
+    paginated = Paginator(results, PAGE_LENGTH)
+    page = paginated.get_page(request.GET.get("page"))
+    data["results"] = page
+    data["page_range"] = paginated.get_elided_page_range(
+        page.number, on_each_side=2, on_ends=1
+    )
+    return TemplateResponse(request, "search/author.html", data)
+
+
 def user_search(request):
     """user search: search for a user"""
     viewer = request.user