Improve search results when only phonebook-matches can we autocompleted

Signed-off-by: Joas Schilling <coding@schilljs.com>

2 files changed, 44 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/public/User/Backend/IGetRealUIDBackend.php b/lib/public/User/Backend/IGetRealUIDBackend.php
index d724426e176..cc290eb6dc0 100644
--- a/lib/public/User/Backend/IGetRealUIDBackend.php
+++ b/lib/public/User/Backend/IGetRealUIDBackend.php
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ interface IGetRealUIDBackend {
 
 	/**
 	 * Some backends accept different UIDs than what is the internal UID to be used.
-	 * For example the database backend accepts differnt cased UIDs in all the functions
+	 * For example the database backend accepts different cased UIDs in all the functions
 	 * but the internal UID that is to be used should be correctly cased.
 	 *
 	 * This little function makes sure that the used UID will be correct hen using the user object
diff --git a/lib/public/User/Backend/ISearchKnownUsersBackend.php b/lib/public/User/Backend/ISearchKnownUsersBackend.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..89c7a49cd30
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/public/User/Backend/ISearchKnownUsersBackend.php
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+<?php
+
+declare(strict_types=1);
+
+/**
+ * @copyright Copyright (c) 2021 Joas Schilling <coding@schilljs.com>
+ *
+ * @author Joas Schilling <coding@schilljs.com>
+ *
+ * @license GNU AGPL version 3 or any later version
+ *
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
+ * License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ * along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ *
+ */
+
+namespace OCP\User\Backend;
+
+/**
+ * @since 21.0.1
+ */
+interface ISearchKnownUsersBackend {
+
+	/**
+	 * @param string $searcher
+	 * @param string $pattern
+	 * @param int|null $limit
+	 * @param int|null $offset
+	 * @return array
+	 * @since 21.0.1
+	 */
+	public function searchKnownUsersByDisplayName(string $searcher, string $pattern, ?int $limit = null, ?int $offset = null): array;
+}