API for searching
Hello, I'am doing a application for selling product online. And you know, the search bar, I want to make them functional, to create an API my frontend can use to search for products with barcode, image, name etc
PWhats stopping you?
PWhat have you tried? Where are you stuck?
AI want suggestions where can I find that's api
P???
Pyou have to make that api
AI don't know how to make them, soo...
Pwell, start simple
Pmake an API endpoint that takes a string in and returns a list of results out
Plimit it to only accepting names for now
Pthen add barcodes, if you have that data
ASoo i need to create data for barcodes
Pwell, duh?
Pif your database doesnt contain barcode information, how else would you search for it?
AWhat about for images?
PWhat about images?
ATo search the product with images
P... what
Plike, google reverse image search?
AYep
PGood luck
ALike that
AHahhaha, thank you
PI can almost guarantee that you can safely ignore that feature.
PAnd if you must have it, it involves some very complicated topics - you'll need a way to "compare" two images and calculate a "similarity" rating, but you also likely need some AI tech to find the "important object" in the image etc
P
Pthis image is very relevant here
AOhh, maybe is right to ignore that future
AFeature
Pthe other two make more sense and are easy to implement, given you have the data
AYep, sure. Thank you Pobiega
AI know now what to do,
AI didn't know where to start
Pagain, with caveats for how fancy you want it. a name search can be as easy as a
Pbut you might want to compensate for typos, or wrong word order etc
Pat that point you might need a search indexer, the complexity again skyrockets 
AOther complexity?
P?
AAre there other complexities?
POf course. But listing them is unfeasible
Pit all depends on what your requirements are and what features you want
Pand what solutions you can use depends on your developer skills, how much this can cost, how much time this can take, etc
PIs it realistic to have a search indexer for a webshop?
If you are a tiny tiny seller with single-digit customers per day, no.
If you are selling thousands of products per day? yes.
If you are a tiny tiny seller with single-digit customers per day, no.
If you are selling thousands of products per day? yes.
AWell, with others developer in my company, we think to make for thousands products
ASoo, ofc is not easy
ABut, I want to trying,to prove how far can I go
AI will trying and for this,
AThank youuu Pobiega, a looot
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