Search errors for long SMILES codes

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Search errors for long SMILES codes #38

Closed JonasSchaub closed 4 years ago

JonasSchaub commented 4 years ago

It happened multiple times to me that when I search for a quite long SMILES code, the search function runs into an error ('An error occurred...'). And when this happens, I also cannot start a new search, I have to reload the page. One example is the SMILES code 'O=C(O)CC(O)(C)CC(=O)OC1COC(OC2C(O)C(OC(OC3C(O)C(O)C(OC4CC5CCC6C(CCC7(C)C6CC8OC9(OCC(C)CC9)C(C)C87)C5(C)CC4O)OC3CO)C2OC%10OC(CO)C(O)C(O)C%10O)CO)C(O)C1O'.

mSorok commented 4 years ago

Question: are you doing this search in the header search bar, or in the "Structure search" part?

JonasSchaub commented 4 years ago

I'm doing it in the header search bar. In the structure search with the option 'Exact match (by canonical SMILES)' it seems to be working fine.

mSorok commented 4 years ago

Ok, so I managed to find several little bugs that were appearing with few exceptional queries:

it was an encoding problem, appearing only with the "simple search" because of the % + digits in the long and complex SMILES
I also finally corrected the possibility to search again after a result or an error.

Thank you for pointing this issue out!