Earlier today I decided that it would be useful to have some simple query access to the Media Search application I posted recently; the following urls will now show useful results:

http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/MediaSearch/MediaSearch.html?q=cloud

That will do a keyword search (across titles and content) for the audio and video content on our site. This one:

http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/MediaSearch/MediaSearch.html?tag=cloud

will do a tag search (like clicking on a tag within the app)

As it happens, adding those kinds of public urls for a Web Velocity (Seaside) app is an easy thing. In my component, I added this method:

initialRequest: aRequest
	super initialRequest: aRequest.
	aRequest at: 'q' ifPresent: [:searchString |
		self setupSearchQueryFor: searchString].
	aRequest at: 'tag' ifPresent: [:tagString |
		self setupTagSearchFor: tagString]

And that makes those urls public - which means that you can use them easily in any non-Seaside app - for instance, you can hook up a stock search field using a servlet to hit those urls.

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