Add link search feature

[frankyaorenjie]

With this feature, users can specify search pattern in URL like this http://kibana.com/logstash.json?query="defg". And Kibana will automatically search this pattern.

[rashidkpc]

I like where this is going. I'd like to see it refined in the following ways:

1. Able to handles multiple queries. We need to consider what happens when queries are already present. Should we add to them? Replace them?
2. Able to assign an alias, maybe the type as well. Perhaps it could be generalized to handle all of the properties of the query object? Should probably use the set() function here.

[frankyaorenjie]

Hi rashidkpc,

1. use specified separator to split multiple queries. I think this feature is used while someone click this url and jump to a new web page, so why there are queries which are already present?
2. I don't think make alias or type a param which can be defined in url params is a good choice. In my opinion, these are so-called configuration params in kibana, not user-customized params that can be different between uses. Also, since kibana3 has a high-customized dashboard, is it possible to handle all different params? If url has a params which exactly doesn't exist in this dashboard, how can we handle it?

[rashidkpc]

1. There will always be at least 1 query present, as Kibana does not allow you to remove the sole remaining query
2. At very least type should be handled, as there will soon be a regular expression search type

[abraxxa]

There is no such thing as 'queries already present' because http is stateless and Kibana has no session as far as I know so a GET request for a dashboard with a query parameter should set the query to that value.
Maybe assigning IDs to each dashboard component and using those IDs to set values would make sense to have a more general approach e.g. search.query=foo&timepicker.mode=relative&timepicker.startdate=2013-08-19T00:00:00

[rashidkpc]

I'm going to close this for now, This will be implemented soon, I just want to make sure its the right level of dynamic and has the structure to allow for future url passed params.