search-api endpoint enhancement: Which "entities" satisfy *ranges* for numerical criteria?

[AlanSimmons]

Use case 5 of #590

This is an enhancement of the endpoint for Use Case 4 described in #601.

Story

As a consumer of the search-api, I want to be able to obtain information on a set of "entities" with values that fall within certain numerical ranges. Examples:

1. Return data for all datasets from CODEX assays that were performed on tissue samples that were obtained from the small intestines of female donors between the ages of 40 and 60.
2. List all files from LC-MS assays that have file extension RAW and that have a file size of over 200 MB.
3. List all antibodies from a particular vendor with catalog numbers in the range X to Y.

Target

Developers of applications that would call the API.

Technical Translation

Return an ElasticSearch query response that can handle numeric ranges.

The endpoint for Use Case 4 returns values that exactly match. This endpoint will need to handle ranges--e.g.,

• minimum values (e.g., >=)
• maximum values (e.g., <=)

Solution options

Ability to specify ranges in endpoints. This would likely require some custom parsing of parameters, such as discussed here