I have started reading some references about API design (Amazon, Microsoft, Github, Apigee..) and I encountered this sentence:
"A better API must implement search and filter functionality." (something like that ..)
I did not figure out:
What's the difference between Filtering and Searching in Restful context?
Cordially
Searching is all about the query that is being passed by the API consumer. Something like passing a ?q=rafael on a user context to find all users matching that name. Filtering, on the other hand, is about narrowing down those results based on other attributes from the resource. Something like ?q=rafael&age=23.