https://prule.github.io/pauls-blog/tags/search/Recent content in Search on Pauls BlogHugoen-usMon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 +1000https://prule.github.io/pauls-blog/post/coding/2026/anatomy-of-search/Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 +1000https://prule.github.io/pauls-blog/post/coding/2026/anatomy-of-search/<h1 id="anatomy-of-a-search-endpoint-filter-sort-paginate-hateoas">Anatomy of a Search Endpoint: Filter, Sort, Paginate, HATEOAS</h1> <p>A walk through <code>GET /api/1/sessions</code> in the Laptime Insights server — from the Ktor route, down through the use case and persistence port, into the Exposed query, and back out as a HATEOAS page that the React frontend uses to render a sortable table.</p> <p>The feature is small but it touches every layer, so it&rsquo;s a good example of how clean architecture lets each concern live in exactly one place: the domain decides what&rsquo;s sortable, the repository decides how that maps to a column, the resource decides how it appears on the wire, and the UI decides how to render it. Nothing leaks.</p>