Vault author search tweaks

[ericscheid]

When using Vault to find brews by particular authors ...

1. do we really want to require the user to know and enter the author name for a case-sensitive search?
   Make the author search be case-insensitive.
   • https://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/vault?author=Gazook89
   • https://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/vault?author=gazook89
2. doing partial match searches might also be sensible?
   • https://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/vault?author=Gaz
   • https://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/vault?author=Gazook

[5e-Cleric]

Since i'm not very inclined to doing this myself, at least i'll write down how to do this:

author conditions in the vault.api.js file must be changed:

from:

const authorConditions = (author)=>{
	if(!author) return {};
	return { authors: author };
};

to:

const authorConditions = (author) => {
    if (!author) return {};
    return { "authors.0": { $regex: author, $options: 'i' } };
};

Also in the vault form, we want to increase the minimum characters for author from 1 to 3, i know that seems harsh to the 2 character usernames out there(if there are any) but we can't have a search matching everybody.

There is still the possibility that someone sets: com or ara, evo and matches thousands of authors, so.. yeah there's that.

I think that's all, not sure.