Using String Comparisons

• Let's add a string column to model:

public class Blog
{
    public string BlogId { get; set; }
    public int CategoryId { get; set; }
    public string Title { get; set; } // <-- We'll work on this string field
    public int Priority { get; set; }
    public bool IsPublished { get; set; }
    public DateTime PublishDate { get; set; }
}

• And of course add DTO too

public class BlogFilterDto : FilterBase<Blog>
{
    public int? CategoryId { get; set; }
    public int? Priority { get; set; }
    public string Title { get; set; } // <-- Same property name with Entity's property
    public bool? IsPublished { get; set; }
}

• Let's add StringFilterOptions attribute on the string field to search as Contains instead of exact value:

public class BlogFilterDto : FilterBase<Blog>
{
    public int? CategoryId { get; set; }
    public int? Priority { get; set; }
    [StringFilterOptions(StringFilterOption.Contains)]
    public string Title { get; set; }
    public bool? IsPublished { get; set; }
}

• You can send following requests to check result. That's awesome!

  • /Blogs?Title=Hello
  • /Blogs?Title=Hello%20World
  • /Blogs?Title=a