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+/*!
+ * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Nextcloud GmbH and Nextcloud contributors
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
+ */
+
+import type { INode } from '@nextcloud/files'
+import type { ResponseDataDetailed, SearchResult } from 'webdav'
+
+import { getCurrentUser } from '@nextcloud/auth'
+import { defaultRootPath, getDavNameSpaces, getDavProperties, resultToNode } from '@nextcloud/files/dav'
+import { getBaseUrl } from '@nextcloud/router'
+import { client } from './WebdavClient.ts'
+import logger from '../logger.ts'
+
+export interface SearchNodesOptions {
+	dir?: string,
+	signal?: AbortSignal
+}
+
+/**
+ * Search for nodes matching the given query.
+ *
+ * @param query - Search query
+ * @param options - Options
+ * @param options.dir - The base directory to scope the search to
+ * @param options.signal - Abort signal for the request
+ */
+export async function searchNodes(query: string, { dir, signal }: SearchNodesOptions): Promise<INode[]> {
+	const user = getCurrentUser()
+	if (!user) {
+		// the search plugin only works for user roots
+		return []
+	}
+
+	query = query.trim()
+	if (query.length < 3) {
+		// the search plugin only works with queries of at least 3 characters
+		return []
+	}
+
+	if (dir && !dir.startsWith('/')) {
+		dir = `/${dir}`
+	}
+
+	logger.debug('Searching for nodes', { query, dir })
+	const { data } = await client.search('/', {
+		details: true,
+		signal,
+		data: `
+<d:searchrequest ${getDavNameSpaces()}>
+	 <d:basicsearch>
+		 <d:select>
+			 <d:prop>
+			 ${getDavProperties()}
+			 </d:prop>
+		 </d:select>
+		 <d:from>
+			 <d:scope>
+				 <d:href>/files/${user.uid}${dir || ''}</d:href>
+				 <d:depth>infinity</d:depth>
+			 </d:scope>
+		 </d:from>
+		 <d:where>
+			 <d:like>
+				 <d:prop>
+					 <d:displayname/>
+				 </d:prop>
+				 <d:literal>%${query.replace('%', '')}%</d:literal>
+			 </d:like>
+		 </d:where>
+		 <d:orderby/>
+	</d:basicsearch>
+</d:searchrequest>`,
+	}) as ResponseDataDetailed<SearchResult>
+
+	// check if the request was aborted
+	if (signal?.aborted) {
+		return []
+	}
+
+	// otherwise return the result mapped to Nextcloud nodes
+	return data.results.map((result) => resultToNode(result, defaultRootPath, getBaseUrl()))
+}