feat: allow querying users by regex

Author: eug-vs

services/users/users.hooks.ts

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import _ from 'lodash';
 import { hooks } from '@feathersjs/authentication-local';
 import { HookContext } from '@feathersjs/feathers';
 
@@ -8,15 +9,23 @@ const localDispatch = async (context: HookContext): Promise<HookContext> => {
   return context;
 };
 
+const ignoreCaseRegex = async (context: HookContext): Promise<HookContext> => {
+  context.params.query = _.mapValues(context.params.query, data => {
+    return _.set(data, '$options', 'i');
+  });
+  return context;
+};
+
 export default {
   after: {
-    all: [hooks.protect('password')],
-    get: [localDispatch] // Protect password from local get's
+    all: hooks.protect('password'),
+    get: localDispatch, // Protect password from local get's
   },
   before: {
-    create: [hashPassword],
-    patch: [hashPassword],
-    update: [hashPassword]
+    find: ignoreCaseRegex,
+    create: hashPassword,
+    patch: hashPassword,
+    update: hashPassword
   }
 };
 

services/users/users.service.ts

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import service from 'feathers-mongoose';
 import Model from '../../models/users/user.model';
 import hooks from './users.hooks';
 
-const UserService = service({ Model });
+const UserService = service({ Model, whitelist: ['$options', '$regex'] });
 
 export default (app: Application): void => {
   app.use('/users', UserService);