Search Module - Feature List

1. Active Surfaces

• Admin products: /api/admin/products
• Mobile products: /api/mobile/products

2. Core Features

• Typo-tolerant search using trigram similarity (SEARCH_SIMILARITY_THRESHOLD, default 0.3)
• Category/tag cross-table matching via EXISTS
• Relevance sort (sort=relevance)
• Standard paginated ResponseDto response envelopes

3. Security Features

• Admin products protected by JwtAuthGuard + RoleGuard + Products_READ
• Mobile products protected by endpoint-level Redis rate limiting

4. Cache Features

• Mobile product list/search uses Redis cache-aside
• Admin product list/search remains uncached

5. Validation Features

• DTO-first query validation via global ValidationPipe
• Strict enum validation for sortable/filterable fields
• Pagination normalized via shared query DTO patterns

6. Performance Features

• Trigram indexes on product/category/tag search columns
• Explicit select projections (no SELECT *)
• Paginated responses only

7. Integration Notes

• Search is implemented inside catalog product services
• No dedicated standalone search module

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See Also

• API Reference: See Search - API & Integration Guide for complete API contracts.
• Backend Reference: See Catalog Product - Backend Documentation for search implementation details.