collective.searchblocks

A comprehensive Plone add-on that provides search functionality for content using specific blocks.

Features ✨

• Block Search Endpoint: RESTful API endpoint (/@search-blocks) for searching content by block types
• Security: Permission-based access control for the search API
• Catalog Integration: Uses Plone's catalog for efficient searching
• Metadata Support: Returns rich metadata including title, type, review state, creation and modification dates
• Pagination: Support for batched results with configurable page sizes
• Sorting: Results sorted by title for consistent ordering

Installation

Install collective.searchblocks with uv.

uv add collective.searchblocks

Create the Plone site.

make create-site

REST API

@search-blocks

Search for content using specific blocks.

GET /@search-blocks

Returns a list of all available block types in the catalog.

Response:

{
  "block_types": ["slider", "hero", "text"]
}

GET /@search-blocks?block_types=slider

Returns content items that have the specified block type, formatted using the standard summary serializer.

Response:

{
  "block_types": ["slider", "hero", "text"],
  "items": [
    {
      "@id": "http://localhost:8080/Plone/doc-1",
      "@type": "Document",
      "title": "Doc 1",
      "description": "...",
      "review_state": "published"
    }
  ],
  "items_total": 1
}

Parameters:

• block_types (string): The block type to search for.
• b_size (int): Batch size (pagination).
• b_start (int): Batch start index (pagination).
• sort_on (string, automatic): Sorts results by sortable_title (automatically added).
• metadata_fields (list, automatic): Includes modified and created metadata fields (automatically added).

Contribute

• Issue tracker
• Source code

Prerequisites ✅

• An operating system that runs all the requirements mentioned.
• uv
• Make
• Git
• Docker (optional)

Installation 🔧

1. Clone this repository.

   git clone git@github.com:collective/collective-searchblocks.git
   cd collective-searchblocks/backend
   

2. Install this code base.

   make install
   

Add features using plonecli or bobtemplates.plone

This package provides markers as strings (<!-- extra stuff goes here -->) that are compatible with plonecli and bobtemplates.plone. These markers act as hooks to add all kinds of features through subtemplates, including behaviors, control panels, upgrade steps, or other subtemplates from bobtemplates.plone. plonecli is a command line client for bobtemplates.plone, adding autocompletion and other features.

To add a feature as a subtemplate to your package, use the following command pattern.

make add <template_name>

For example, you can add a content type to your package with the following command.

make add content_type

You can add a behavior with the following command.

make add behavior

You can check the list of available subtemplates in the [`bobtemplates.plone` `README.md` file](https://github.com/plone/bobtemplates.plone/?tab=readme-ov-file#provided-subtemplates).
See also the documentation of [Mockup and Patternslib](https://6.docs.plone.org/classic-ui/mockup.html) for how to build the UI toolkit for Classic UI.

License

The project is licensed under GPLv2.

Credits and acknowledgements 🙏

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