Search and Filtering interface is confusing and inconsistent

[cryptk]

I have just added the StringSearchFilter from the examples repository, and trying to figure out how to get the configured search and filters to actually apply was quite difficult. It turns out that I need to put in the string I want to search for... and then click one of the page/seek buttons on the browse list...

Would it be possible to add a simple "Apply Filters" button to the Search and Filtering pane? Some of the other filters (for example the Timestamp Seek one) has a nice button labeled "Seek" that applies the configured filter, it seems that the Record Filters section should have a similar button to just re-query kafka, but with the configured Record Filters in place

[manzan46]

👍 spend a fair bit of time on that too

[ebcFlagman]

Any work on that issue? I'm really confused about that behaviour

[Crim]

Thanks for your input. To get a better understanding, how would you expect the filter to apply when you click the "apply filter" button? From the head of the topic? Moving forward from the current position?

Thanks!

[Crim]

The above PR should be included in the next release.

[Crim]

released v2.5.1 which includes this.