Should Biocache WS support query parameters that are not URL encoded?

[qifeng-bai]

For example:
https://biocache-test.ala.org.au/occurrences/search?q=species_list_uid:dr21646&fq=decade:2020&fq=country:Australia&fq=first_loaded_date:[2023-02-07T13:00:00Z%20TO%20*]&fq=occurrence_date:[2023-02-07T13:00:00Z%20TO%20*]&sort=first_loaded_date&dir=desc&disableAllQualityFilters=true

returns no records without errors.

However, after we replaced species_list_uid:dr21646 with species_list_uid%3Ddr21646, the url returns occurences

[adam-collins]

Closing as the problem is in specieslist-webapp.

1. species_list_uid is only usable for authoritative lists. e.g. https://biocache.ala.org.au/occurrences/search?q=species_list_uid:dr947
2. species_list is what you want for non-authoritative lists. e.g. https://biocache.ala.org.au/occurrences/search?q=species_list:dr21646
3. lists has a matching bug that prevents uploading a list with only taxonID. See https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia/specieslist-webapp/issues/299
4. when you encode the colon you break the search. It ends up doing a search on the default catch all text field, i.e. the wrong results for this example.

[qifeng-bai]

@adam-collins However, in the Alerts, when we subscribe a list, it does not check if it is an authoritative list or not, it always use species_list_uit to construct its query