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Add ability to find or filter messages by date and author in /search API
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Description
Very often we need to find specific messages by date range, for example - in previous week. Seems at now there are no ability to find or filter messages by date and author in Matrix Server Side Search API: https://matrix.org/docs/spec/client_server/r0.2.0.html#id60
Also will be useful to filter messages by author.
Please add ability to filter search results by date range and author, and make search_term not mandatory field in search (for find all messages in date range).
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the /search API and the Matrix Client-Server API r0.2.0 section linked in the issue. Define how date ranges and author filters work, including searches with no search_term, then update the specification and its examples so the new request and response behavior is unambiguous.
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Assessment
- Domain
- api, backend-api-design, search
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100