Search Directory Services

1 March 2019

C10 - added the optional flags, search, price and area parameters for land searches and require the page parameter for land searches.

4 February 2015

Release 7.62 - The directorysearch now returns the full list of matches based on the supplied criteria - the old behavior is that only the first most relevant (based on a scoring system) match would be returned. This means that the directorysearch command can now be used to return a list of matches instead of a single match. The results are still sorted in the order of relevant with most relevant being returned first. Since the results can now be rather large depending on the search criteria, it is recommended to use sifting to return only partial results.
Release 7.62 - The timeout parameter is no longer used.

directorysearch (Commands)
Type	Corrade progressive command
Command	`directorysearch`
Description	Corrade is able to search directory services for classifieds, events, groups, land, people and places.
Permissions	`directory`
Parameters	`group`, `password`, `type`, `name` (The `name` parameter is optional for `classified` and `event` search `type` but required for all other search types.)
Last Changes	Release 7.62 - now returns a full list of matches.

Corrade is able to search directory services for classifieds, events, groups, land, people and places.

Command	Required Parameters	Required Corrade Permissions	Example
`directorysearch`	`group`, `password`, `type`, `name`¹⁾	`directory`	llInstantMessage(CORRADE, wasKeyValueEncode( [ "command", "directorysearch", "group", wasURLEscape(GROUP), "password", wasURLEscape(PASSWORD), "type", "event", "name", "hunt" ] ) );

Parameter	Possible Values	Description
`type`	`classified`, `event`, `group`, `land`, `people`, `places`	The directory search type.

The results can be filtered using the optional data parameter which follows the libopenmetaverse data structures of each search type. In order to do so, supply a CSV list to the data parameter containing pairs of fields or properties and the desired value.

Parameter	Possible Values	Optional Parameter	Structure	Example
`type`	`classified`	`data`	Classified	llInstantMessage(CORRADE, wasKeyValueEncode( [ "command", "directorysearch", "group", wasURLEscape(GROUP), "password", wasURLEscape(PASSWORD), "type", "classified", "name", "hunt", "timeout", 10000, "data", wasListToCSV( [ "Price", 73888 ] ), "callback", wasURLEscape(URL) ] ) );
	`classified`	`name`	A string to search the name by.
	`event`	`data`	Event Search Data	llInstantMessage(CORRADE, wasKeyValueEncode( [ "command", "directorysearch", "group", wasURLEscape(GROUP), "password", wasURLEscape(PASSWORD), "type", "event", "name", "hunt", "timeout", 10000, "data", wasListToCSV( [ "Owner", "fc785fe9-f15b-431d-9f2f-3104811095b" ] ), "callback", wasURLEscape(URL) ] ) );
	`event`	`name`	A string to search the name by.
	`group`	`data`	Group Search Data	llInstantMessage(CORRADE, wasKeyValueEncode( [ "command", "directorysearch", "group", wasURLEscape(GROUP), "password", wasURLEscape(PASSWORD), "type", "group", "name", "Wizardry", "timeout", 10000, "data", wasListToCSV( [ "Members", 17 ] ), "callback", wasURLEscape(URL) ] ) );
	`group`	`name`	A string to search the name by.
	`land`	`data`	Directory Parcel	llInstantMessage(CORRADE, wasKeyValueEncode( [ "command", "directorysearch", "group", wasURLEscape(GROUP), "password", wasURLEscape(PASSWORD), "type", "land", "timeout", 10000, "page", 1, "data", wasListToCSV( [ "ActualArea", 4096, "SalePrice", 1 ] ), "callback", wasURLEscape(URL) ] ) );
		`flags`	Optional land find flags. Assumed to be set to `SortAsc` if not supplied.
		`search`	Optional search type flags. Assumed to be set to `Any` if not supplied.
		`price`	An optional maximum price to search land parcels by.
		`area`	An optional minimum land area to search parcels by.
		`page`	A required parameter as the index of the data returned (please see the Notes section).
	`people`	`data`	Agent Search Data	llInstantMessage(CORRADE, wasKeyValueEncode( [ "command", "directorysearch", "group", wasURLEscape(GROUP), "password", wasURLEscape(PASSWORD), "type", "people", "name", "Roger", "timeout", 10000, "data", wasListToCSV( [ "Online", "True" ] ), "callback", wasURLEscape(URL) ] ) );
	`people`	`name`	A string to search the name by.
	`places`	`data`	Directory Parcel	llInstantMessage(CORRADE, wasKeyValueEncode( [ "command", "directorysearch", "group", wasURLEscape(GROUP), "password", wasURLEscape(PASSWORD), "type", "place", "name", "love", "timeout", 10000, "data", wasListToCSV( [ "ActualArea", 4096 ] ), "callback", wasURLEscape(URL) ] ) );
	`places`	`name`	A string to search the name by.

Notes

When searching for land (type→land) on the SecondLife grid, the data server returns results zero-indexed by the page parameter (ie: page→0 will return the first batch of results, page→1 returns the second batch of results, etc…). Note that land searches in SecondLife are throttled as $1$ search per $5$ seconds. It is up to the user to ensure that searches are not performed more often than the official throttle.
Flags are passed as a CSV list, for instance, the following call will retrieve land parcels, sort them in ascending order, limited by area, including all maturity ratings larger than $4096m^{2}$ and just on the main land:

llInstantMessage(CORRADE,
    wasKeyValueEncode(
        [
            "command", "directorysearch",
            "group", wasURLEscape(GROUP),
            "password", wasURLEscape(PASSWORD),
            "type", "land",
            "flags", wasListToCSV(
                [
                    "SortAsc",
                    "PerMeterSort",
                    "LimitByArea",
                    "IncludePG",
                    "IncludeMature",
                    "IncludeAdult"
                ]
            ),
            "page", 2,
            "area", "4096",
            "search", wasListToCSV(
                [
                    "Mainland"
                ]
            ),
            "timeout", 600000,
            "callback", wasURLEscape(URL)
        ]
    )
);

In case the command is sent without a data parameter, then the whole structure is returned. To ensure that the stride of the returned CSV list is know before issuing the command, make sure that a data parameter is sent along with the command.
In case land is searched, this command will not return the location of any found parcel (either region identifiers or global positions). However, if the location is needed, then the parcel UUID can be fed further to the getparcelinfodata command.

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The name parameter is optional for classified and event search type but required for all other search types.