Exclude columns from searching

Here some thing for 2.x-dev in a short way. Is complementary to search on specific columns.

@Chris64 could you please explain the changes a bit to understand why we should use #4 instead of #2 and what's the background of your implementation?

@Anybody, these old patches are outdated. Patch #2 ✨ Exclude columns from searching Needs work purpose is more general than column search property. The patches here enable search to several columns and not only one as asked in the issue. Such a feature is needed since only one search box might be used and some columns should not be used for search.bSearchable column property is right for this. Each datatable need its own configuration. Better than an hook.
+ 'thead_unsearchable' => $this->t('Table Column: Unsearchable'),
To enable to tell explicitly the column is unsearchable. bSearchable value is a boolean TRUE|FALSE.
+ $column_options['bSearchable'] = 'thead_unsearchable' !== ($options['filter_columns'][$field] ?? '');
provide a boolean value only FALSE if $options['filter_columns'][$field] is set to 'thead_unsearchable', as required.

A new patch with comments.

@Chris64 could we have this as MR also?

That's always the better modern alternative to patches.

@Anybody, here is the MR.

Thanks, the MR LGTM! Still it would be super helpful to have tests for all of this, so we could be sure it works as expected.

Indeed @Anybody. A lot of tests to do.

diqidoq → made their first commit to this issue’s fork.

Let's have some courage to get on with the next release. *hides* I hope I will not complani about this later ;-)

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