The /search path accepts a query string with a name or id parameter and will return all the immediate links related to that person. That is: the person's supervisor, mentor, who they supervised and who they mentored.

example

curl -X GET "localhost:3000/search?name=todd%20lowary"

{  
   "target":{  
      "id":1,
      "name":"todd lowary",
      "position":"professor",
      "institution_id":1
   },
   "mentors":[  
      {  
         "id":4,
         "name":"david bundle",
         "position":"professor emeritus",
         "institution_id":1
      },
      {  
         "id":5,
         "name":"moreten meldel",
         "position":null,
         "institution_id":null
      }
   ],
   "mentored":[  

   ],
   "supervisors":[  
      {  
         "id":3,
         "name":"ole hindsgaul",
         "position":"professor emeritus",
         "institution_id":1
      }
   ],
   "supervised":[  
      {  
         "id":2,
         "name":"wei shi",
         "position":"assistant professor",
         "institution_id":3
      }
   ],
   "institutions":[  
      {  
         "id":1,
         "name":"university of alberta"
      },
      {  
         "id":3,
         "name":"university of arkansas"
      }
   ]
}

notice: the %20 code in place of the space character.

using curl -X GET "localhost:3000/search?id=1" will attain the same result.

code

class

class tests

controller

controller tests