search: use wildcards, make search term required and update changelog

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ### Added
 
+- Subcommand `search` to search the list of last activities for terms (thanks to [@Pyxels](https://github.com/Pyxels))
 - Subcommand `status` to display the total duration of activities today, in the current week and in the current month (thanks to [@airenas](https://github.com/airenas))
 - Option `--no-quotes` to `project` to suppres quotes in the projects list (thanks to [@defigli](https://github.com/defigli))
 

README.md

@@ -283,7 +283,8 @@ bartib list --from 2021-09-01 --to 2021-09-05    # list activities in a given ti
 bartib list --project "The most exciting project"    # list activities for a given project
 bartib list --round 15m # rounds the start and end time to the nearest duration. Durations can be in minutes or hours. E.g. 15m or 4h
 
-bartib search    # search all descriptions and projects for a specific term
+bartib search "exiting"   # search all descriptions and projects for a specific term
+bartib search "e*t?ng"   # use '?' and '*' as wildcards
 ```
 
 ### Edit activities

src/controller/list.rs

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 use anyhow::Result;
 use chrono::NaiveDateTime;
+use wildmatch::WildMatch;
 
 use crate::conf;
 use crate::data::activity;
@@ -200,19 +201,22 @@ pub fn list_last_activities(file_name: &str, number: usize) -> Result<()> {
 
 // searches for the term in descriptions and projects
 pub fn search(file_name: &str, search_term: Option<&str>) -> Result<()> {
-    let search_term = search_term.unwrap_or("");
+    let search_term = search_term
+        .map(|term| format!("*{}*", term.to_lowercase()))
+        .unwrap_or("".to_string());
     let file_content = bartib_file::get_file_content(file_name)?;
 
     let descriptions_and_projects: Vec<(&String, &String)> =
         getter::get_descriptions_and_projects(&file_content);
+    let search_term_wildmatch = WildMatch::new(&search_term);
     let matches: Vec<(usize, &(&String, &String))> = descriptions_and_projects
         .iter()
         .rev()
         .enumerate()
         .rev()
         .filter(|(_index, (desc, proj))| {
-            desc.to_lowercase().contains(&search_term.to_lowercase())
+            search_term_wildmatch.matches(&desc.to_lowercase())
-                || proj.to_lowercase().contains(&search_term.to_lowercase())
+                || search_term_wildmatch.matches(&proj.to_lowercase())
         })
         .collect();
 

src/main.rs

@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ To get started, view the `start` help with `bartib start --help`")
                     Arg::with_name("search_term")
                         .value_name("SEARCH_TERM")
                         .help("the search term")
-                        .required(false)
+                        .required(true)
                         .takes_value(true)
                         .default_value("''"),
                 ),