---
id: power-search
title: Power Search
sidebar_label: Power Search
---

By default, your [table](../tutorial/js-table.mdx) has a power search bar. It allows to search through the entire row as a serialized string or through individual columns. Based on the column type, power search provides different search operators for columns. 
For instance, for string values it can check if a string contains a substring or even matches some other string exactly. At the same time, for dates Flipper can filter out records after or before a certain date.
Since Flipper does not have a way of identifying the column type in advance, it always assumes that every column is a string. If you want you can tell Flipper how to handle a column and what power search operators should be available.

## Simplified config

Power search provides a list of default predicates for every column data type. You can specify the column data type like this:

```tsx
import {DataTableColumn} from 'flipper-plugin'

type MyRow = {
    timestamp: number;
    eventType: string;
}

const columns: DataTableColumn<MyRow>[] = [
    {
      key: 'timestamp',
      title: 'Timestamp',
      sortable: true,
      powerSearchConfig: {type: 'dateTime'},
    },
    {
        key: 'eventType',
        title: 'Event',
        powerSearchConfig: {type: 'enum'}
    },
]
```

[Complete list of possible "types"](https://github.com/facebook/flipper/blob/main/desktop/flipper-plugin/src/ui/data-table/DataTableWithPowerSearch.tsx#L148).

## Advanced config

If the default list of predicates is not tailored enouhg for your use-case, you can provide a list of predicates explicitly.

```tsx
import {DataTableColumn, dataTablePowerSearchOperators} from 'flipper-plugin'

type MyRow = {
    timestamp: number;
    eventType: string;
}

const EVENT_TYPE_ENUM_LABELS = {
    yodaValue: 'Yoda Label',
    lukeValue: 'Luke Label'
}

const columns: DataTableColumn<MyRow>[] = [
    {
      key: 'timestamp',
      title: 'Timestamp',
      sortable: true,
      powerSearchConfig: [
        dataTablePowerSearchOperators.same_as_absolute_date_no_time(),
      ]
    },
    {
        key: 'eventType',
        title: 'Event',
        powerSearchConfig: {   
            // You can also provide power search config as an object
            operators: [
                dataTablePowerSearchOperators.enum_is(EVENT_TYPE_ENUM_LABELS),
                dataTablePowerSearchOperators.enum_is_not(EVENT_TYPE_ENUM_LABELS),
            ],
            // It could have exra options
            // See https://github.com/facebook/flipper/blob/main/desktop/flipper-plugin/src/ui/data-table/DataTableWithPowerSearch.tsx#L157
        }
    },
]
```

## Using legacy search

While we would encourage using the new power search, some plugins might decide to stick to the legacy experience. To do that you have to use different imports from 'flipper-plugin': `MasterDetailLegacy` instead of `MasterDetail`, `DataTableLegacy` instead of `DataTable`, `DataTableColumnLegacy` instead of `DataTable`, `DataTableManagerLegacy` instead of `DataTableManager`.

```tsx
import {MasterDetailLegacy, DataTableColumnLegacy} from 'flipper-plugin';

const columns: DataTableColumnLegacy<MyRow>[] = [
    // colun definition
]

export const Component = () => {
    return <MasterDetailLegacy columns={columns} /* ...other props */ />
}
```

## Examples 

You can see a live examplse of how you can provide the power search config here:

0. [Logs](https://github.com/facebook/flipper/blob/main/desktop/plugins/public/logs/index.tsx#L49)
0. [Network](https://github.com/facebook/flipper/blob/main/desktop/plugins/public/network/index.tsx#L664)
0. [Intern-only](https://fburl.com/code/liiu1wns). 

You can find the complete list of supported operators [here](https://github.com/facebook/flipper/blob/main/desktop/flipper-plugin/src/ui/data-table/DataTableDefaultPowerSearchOperators.tsx).