Is it possible to search for registry keys?

[gforcada]

Our use case:

We have plenty of SVG icons that are stored in the registry (this way we can upload more on demand) and we want to display a gallery of those icons via the frontend.

For that we need a way, with the plone.restapi, to query the registry for certain keys that start with a given prefix.

The search form that shows on the Classic UI control panel but powered via the plone.restapi.

On the docs it only mentions how to get one specific registry record, list all of them, or update a registry record.

We are missing the search and creating new registry records endpoints.

With some code pointers, we could provide them ourselves if, as I'm gathering, they don't exist.

[davisagli]

@gforcada The registry endpoints are in https://github.com/plone/plone.restapi/tree/main/src/plone/restapi/services/registry and use serialization adapters in https://github.com/plone/plone.restapi/blob/main/src/plone/restapi/serializer/registry.py

I think it'd make sense to add support for filtering the listing using a prefix passed in the querystring (similar to https://6.docs.plone.org/plone.restapi/docs/source/endpoints/aliases.html#filter-aliases in the aliases endpoint).

[gforcada]

@davisagli oh, thanks, a code example is great 👍🏾 as I will need it for a project at work, I hope I can contribute this enhancement soon ™

[davisagli]

A way to filter the registry keys in the GET endpoint was added in #1861