progress towards allowing overrides. dbox can now allow finding a person and clicking them to post to back-end.. More work to make this real, for now it goes through the routes but does not update the DB, see bottom of face.py for next steps

internal/js/view_support.js

@@ -257,7 +257,44 @@ $(document).ready( function()
     } )
 } );
 
+// quick wrapper function to make calling this ajax code simpler in SearchForPerson
+function OverrideForceMatch( person, face )
+{
+	ofm='&person_id='+person+'&face_id='+face
+	// on success, close the dbox, force face drawing on and redraw the face with the new override
+	$.ajax({ type: 'POST', data: ofm, url: '/override_force_match', success: function(data) { 
+		$('#dbox').modal('hide'); 
+		$('#faces').prop('checked',true);
+		DrawImg();
+		}
+	} )
+}
 
+// function to facilitate adding a face match override to this "found" person
+// uses Ajax to the f/e to get any person matching #stext's content (via any name/tag)
+// and displays results in #search_person_results
+function SearchForPerson(face_id)
+{
+	// make URI safe
+	who = encodeURIComponent( $('#stext').val() )
+	// call ajax to find ppl
+    $.ajax({ type: 'POST', data: null, url: '/find_persons/'+ who,
+        success: function(data) {
+			content='Click one of the link(s) below to manually connect this face as once-off connection to the person:<br><br>'
+			for( var key in data ) {
+				var person = data[key];
+				content+= '<a onClick="OverrideForceMatch('+person.id+','+face_id+')">'+person.firstname+' '+person.surname+'('+person.tag+')</a><br>'
+			}
+            $('#search_person_results').html( content )
+        }
+    } )
+	return false
+}
+
+
+// function that is called when we click on a face in the viewer and we want to
+// potentially override the non-match / match... it shows the face, and then
+// based on which menu item got us here, shows appropriate text to do next action
 function FaceDBox(key, item)
 {
     div ='<p>'
@@ -279,9 +316,12 @@ function FaceDBox(key, item)
         div+=
             `
             <div class="input-group mb-3"><input type="text" class="form-control" id="stext" placeholder="tag/name">
-                <button class="btn btn-outline-success" type="button" onClick="console.log('search for: ' + $('#stext').val());return false">Search</button>
+                <button class="btn btn-outline-success" type="button" onClick="SearchForPerson(`
+		div+= item[key]['id']
+		div+=`)">Search</button>
             </div>
-                `
+			<div id="search_person_results">
+			</div>`
     }
     if ( key == 'wrong_person' )
 	{