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

[AlanSimmons]

Use case 6 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 date 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 March 2020 and April 2021.
2. List all files from LC-MS assays that have file extension RAW that were created after May 2022.

Target

Developers of applications that would call the API.

Technical Translation

Return an ElasticSearch query response that can handle date ranges.

The endpoint for Use Case 4 returns values that exactly match. Use Case 5 handles numeric date ranges. This endpoint will need to handle date ranges--e.g.,

• start date
• end date

Solution options

Ability to specify date ranges in endpoints.