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Now that we've added the search filter
to our API view set let's go ahead and

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test this in the browser open up the git
bash or the terminal window and just

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check that the development server
reloaded when we last saved our changes

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to the views dot py file if it hasn't
reloaded then just push ctrl C to close

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the server and then start the
development server again to make sure

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the latest code is loaded into the
server once that's done you can open up

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the browser and if you still have the
window open from the previous videos

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then just take note of this area here
you can see that there's no option next

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to the options button but if we refresh
the page you can see that the filters

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option is added this is because we added
the filters back end to our REST API

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view set and the Django rest framework
gave us this option to help test this

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feature in the browser so if we click on
the filters it will allow us to search

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for a particular item in our view set
and because we specified the email and

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the name as the search field it will
search for anything containing or any

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name or email containing the string that
we provide here so just to test the API

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we're going to create one more user I'm
going to call it brooke@londonappdev.com

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and then we'll write the name Brooke and I'm going to put the password

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password 1 2 3 and click on post to
create the new user you can see that a new

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user has been created so let's head back
to the user profile list and you can see

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that the Brooke user has been added to
the list so let's go ahead and test our

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filters click on the filter here and
let's search for the name Brooke and you

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can see that it filters a result to all
of those containing the name Brooke and

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we can do the same thing for my name or
the name of another user so for example

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mark if you search for mark you'll see
the results with the word mark if you

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search for test you can see all the
results containing the name test ok so

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let's have a little look into
how this is working here so the filters

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option in reality you're not going to be
clicking it in the browser when you use

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your API you're going to be using it
from a different application so the way

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it works is the filters button adds this
search parameter here as a get parameter

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to the request so all it does is it puts
the question mark to signify the first

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get parameter and it has a parameter
called search that's the name of the

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parameter and it has a value called test
so we can manipulate this manually in

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the browser URL and we can apply the
search like this so if we search for the name

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mark you can see that it applies the
search and returns the name mark we

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search for the number two you can see
that it returns the same result because

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it's the only one that contains the
number two if we put the words or the

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letters a hit enter or actually it needs to
be question mark search equals a hit enter

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then you can see it returns all of them
because they all contained the letter A

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so this is how you would apply the
search parameter when you consume the

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API you would add it to the URL and then
the Django rest framework would filter

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it accordingly
okay so that's how you add search

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filtering in the API now we can
see that that's working let's go ahead

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and commit our changes to git so open up
the terminal or the git bash and open up

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a window that is on our profiles API
project and type git add dot to add any

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new files and then type git commit -
am and then we'll give it the

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commit message added searching to user Profile API

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Okay hit enter and then do

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git push origin to push our changes
to github