.. _searchbar: RQL search bar -------------- The RQL search bar is a visual component, hidden by default, the tiny *search* input being enough for common use cases. An autocompletion helper is provided to help you type valid queries, both in terms of syntax and in terms of schema validity. .. autoclass:: cubicweb.web.views.magicsearch.RQLSuggestionsBuilder How search is performed +++++++++++++++++++++++ You can use the *rql search bar* to either type RQL queries, plain text queries or standard shortcuts such as ** or * *. Ultimately, all queries are translated to rql since it's the only language understood on the server (data) side. To transform the user query into RQL, CubicWeb uses the so-called *magicsearch component*, defined in :mod:`cubicweb.web.views.magicsearch`, which in turn delegates to a number of query preprocessor that are responsible of interpreting the user query and generating corresponding RQL. The code of the main processor loop is easy to understand: .. sourcecode:: python for proc in self.processors: try: return proc.process_query(uquery, req) except (RQLSyntaxError, BadRQLQuery): pass The idea is simple: for each query processor, try to translate the query. If it fails, try with the next processor, if it succeeds, we're done and the RQL query will be executed.