Description

A search with two colon leads to an TypeError. This two colon, I use offen for a MetaData search, with macros or directly from the search boxes. It should work with native xapian search (and not regex moinmoin slow search).

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a page with some MetaData (e.g.  Key:: Data 

2. And try to search for them via FullSearch

3. You will receive an TypeError, because of this  :: 

Example

• http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinWiki?action=fullsearch&context=180&value=Key%3A%3A+Data&fullsearch=Text

Logfile

A FullText search for Wohnort:: Schweiz

2008-07-10 14:57:01,244 MoinMoin.search.queryparser DEBUG parse_quoted_separated items: [(u'Land', None, None), u'Schweiz']
2008-07-10 14:57:01,252 MoinMoin.failure ERROR An exception occured.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/lotek/lib/python2.5/site-packages/MoinMoin/request/__init__.py", line 1306, in run
    handler(self.page.page_name, self)
  File "/home/lotek/lib/python2.5/site-packages/MoinMoin/action/fullsearch.py", line 185, in execute
    titlesearch=titlesearch).parse_query(needle)
  File "/home/lotek/lib/python2.5/site-packages/MoinMoin/search/queryparser.py", line 1059, in parse_query
    query = self._analyse_items(items)
  File "/home/lotek/lib/python2.5/site-packages/MoinMoin/search/queryparser.py", line 1001, in _analyse_items
    elif "title".startswith(m):
TypeError: expected a character buffer object

Component selection

• search

Details

• traceback.html

Workaround

use some quotes around the term "Key:: Data"

Discussion

• The title of this bug report is maybe a bit wrong; the error just comes from a search with two colons (::) and not specially from meta searches

That query is actually invalid because the query parser uses a colon to delimit prefixes like "regex:case:.*ABC". Therefore, you have to quote it.

• thx! at least it works with quotes, but in near future, we should have a meta-data and meta-search features! All stuff about Meta Data is under MetaData saved, right?

Plan

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• Status: fixed in a53e20c3ebab

CategoryMoinMoinBugFixed