[BUG] Escaping special characters in searches

[lguariento]

When the input search string contains a parenthesis Lucene interprets it as an unescaped special character. For instance, searching for test) or httpclient() .

[line-o]

I assume you propose that we escape any special character from searches. Followign exceptions could be useful (even used)

• double quotes for phrase searches: "this is my search term"
• asterisk for fuzzy searches: *
• how about question marks: ?

[lguariento]

Do you know of a way of escaping them other than JavaScript? How I'd do it is by adding something like 'on submit, look for these characters and add a \ before them'.

document.getElementById("search_button").addEventListener('click', function () {
  let text = document.getElementById('search_field_id').value;
  let regex = /:/gi; <- the regex. In this case I am escaping the semicolon
  let new_text = text.replaceAll(regex, "\\:");
  document.getElementById('search_field_id').value =  new_text;
});

[line-o]

The special characters in the search term should be escaped on the server (in xquery).

[line-o]

Can you dig up where is the search query is being sent to?

[lguariento]

Here it is.

[lguariento]

Actually this issue is about the /documentation repository rather than this, I think.

[line-o]

Yep, I agree. And it will then also be fixed for both.

[lguariento]

Closing this and opening this.