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

person.py

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ from status import st, Status
 from flask_login import login_required, current_user
 from werkzeug.utils import secure_filename
 from shared import GenFace, GenThumb
-from face import FaceRefimgLink
+from face import Face, FaceRefimgLink
 import os
 import json
 import time
@@ -225,3 +225,43 @@ def add_refimg():
     except Exception as e:
         st.SetMessage( f"<b>Failed to modify Refimg:</b>&nbsp;{e}", "danger" )
     return redirect( url_for( 'person', id=person.id) )
+
+################################################################################
+# /find_persons/<who> -> POST (an arbitrary string to find a person (via
+# name/tag match)
+################################################################################
+@app.route("/find_persons/<who>", methods=["POST"])
+@login_required
+def find_persons(who):
+    resp={}
+    people = Person.query.filter( Person.tag.ilike(f'%{who}%') | Person.firstname.ilike(f'%{who}%') | Person.surname.ilike(f'%{who}%') ).all();
+
+    for p in people:
+        resp[p.id]={}
+        resp[p.id]['id']=p.id
+        resp[p.id]['tag']=p.tag
+        resp[p.id]['firstname']=p.firstname
+        resp[p.id]['surname']=p.surname
+
+    print( resp )
+    return resp
+
+################################################################################
+# /override_force_match -> POST
+################################################################################
+@app.route("/override_force_match", methods=["POST"])
+@login_required
+def override_force_match():
+    person_id = request.form['person_id']
+    face_id = request.form['face_id']
+    p = Person.query.get(person_id);
+    if not p:
+        raise Exception("could not find person to add override too!")
+    f = Face.query.get(face_id);
+    if not f:
+        raise Exception("could not find face to add override for!")
+
+    print( f"Being asked to force an override match for face_id {face_id}, for person: {p.tag} -- doing nothing for now" )
+    st.SetMessage( f"Being asked to force an override match for face_id {face_id}, for person: {p.tag} -- doing nothing for now" )
+	# might need to do something smarter here (reload to old view is good though & happens now, not sure why (last url)?)
+    return "ok"