Dojo DGrid RQL Search - dojo

Question

I am working with a dgrid where I want to find a search term in my grid on two columns.
For instance, I want to see if the scientific name and commonName columns contain the string "Aca" (I want my search to be case insensitive)
My Grid definition:
var CustomGrid = declare([Grid, Pagination ]);
var gridStore = new Memory({ idProperty: 'tsn', data: null });
gridStore.queryEngine = rql.query;
grid = new CustomGrid({
store: gridStore,
columns:
[
{ field: "tsn", label: "TSN #"},
{ field: "scientificName", label: "Scientific Name"},
{ field: "commonName", label: "Common Name",},
],
autoHeight: 'true',
firstLastArrows: 'true',
pageSizeOptions: [50, 100],
}, id);
With the built in query language (I think simple query language), I was able to find the term in one column or the other, but I couldn't do a complex search that would return results for both columns.
grid.set("query", { scientificName : new RegExp(speciesKeyword, "i") });
grid.refresh()
I started reading and I think RQL can solve this problem, however, I am struggling with the syntax.
I have been looking at these pages:
http://rql-engine.eu01.aws.af.cm/
https://github.com/kriszyp/rql
And I am able to understand basic queries, however the "contains" syntax eludes me.
For instance if I had this simple data set and wanted to find the entries with scientific and common names that contain the string "Aca" I would think my contains query would look like this:
contains(scientificName,string:aca)
However, this results in no matches.
[
{
"tsn": 1,
"scientificName": "Acalypha ostryifolia",
"commonName": "Rough-pod Copperleaf",
},
{
"tsn": 2,
"scientificName": "Aegalius acadicus",
"commonName": "Northern Saw-whet Owl",
},
{
"tsn": 3,
"scientificName": "Portulaca pilosa",
"commonName": "2012-02-01",
},
{
"tsn": 4,
"scientificName": "Accipiter striatus",
"commonName": "Kiss-me-quick",
},
{
"tsn": 5,
"scientificName": "Acorus americanus",
"commonName": "American Sweetflag",
}
]
Can someone guide me in how to formulate the correct syntax? Thank you.

Answer 1

From what I'm briefly reading, it appears that:
contains was replaced by any and all
these are meant for array comparisons, not string comparisons
I'm not sure offhand whether RegExps can just be handed to other operations e.g. eq.
With dojo/store/Memory, you can also pass a query function which will allow you to do whatever you want, so if you wanted to compare for a match in one field or the other you could do something like this:
grid.set('query', function (item) {
var scientificRx = new RegExp(speciesKeyword, 'i');
var commonRx = new RegExp(...);
return scientificRx.test(item.scientificName) || commonRx.test(item.commonName);
});
Of course, if you want to filter only items that match both, you can do that with simple object syntax:
grid.set('query', {
scientificName: scientificRx,
commonName: commonRx
});