Search users by skills and interests

[abhivemp]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Need an API endpoint on the user component to search through tags and skills.
The models, called TopicTag and SkillTag, stay in the users app

Describe the solution you'd like

Probably the usage of the Q package from django. Would love to discuss better options here.

[TomNewton1]

Hey Abhi,

I am really interested to pick this up as a good first issue. Am I correct in understanding that we need to create a relation between the User model and the TopicTag and SkillTag model? (I looked them up in the img below)

Am I right in thinking that I could do this using a ForeingKey from the TopicTag and SkillTag model to the User model? Or am missing something?

[abhivemp]

Hey @TomNewton1 ! Thanks for picking up this issue. I actually implemented the tags and skills to our models and db yesterday (currently, it's a PR in #134 ). Check that out to see the models implementation.
All you have to do here is write a search function so the endpoint can be used to query through articles, posts, etc.
We actually need to update that diagram. Will work on that today.

[raushanrk5]

Hey @abhivemp, I have also an idea about this issue, like we will show the tags related to article, down its title, and when someone click over any tag, we will show the top articles related to that tag, or if we search for any tags, it will show the same.. I have already done with the implementation of this, but it needs total votes on an article, but that functionality is not done yet, so waiting for that.

[codyseibert]

@raushanrk5 @abhivemp can we keep this simple for now and just created an endpoint that we can hit such as /api/users?interests=javascript /api/users?skills=javascript,react. If you provide a comma list of tags, it will return users that have BOTH tags in their skill list

[codyseibert]

@raushanrk5 are you still working on this? have you made any progress?