From 7c627fae8fbb83b65a6de82e243fdf74e32e14ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: shale <sarah.hale@nasa.gov>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 12:32:52 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [Search] More search options
If the user searches with quotes (" or ') around
the search term, then the term processor will
not put wildcards around the search term.
---
platform/features/search/src/QueryService.js | 28 +++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/platform/features/search/src/QueryService.js b/platform/features/search/src/QueryService.js
index 4704529d4c..f3df7200b1 100644
--- a/platform/features/search/src/QueryService.js
+++ b/platform/features/search/src/QueryService.js
@@ -139,16 +139,26 @@ define(
// TODO: May be unnecsisary
searchTerm = document.getElementById("searchinput").value;
}
-
+
// Process search term.
- // Put wildcards on front and end to allow substring behavior.
- // This works when options like AND and OR are not used, which is
- // the case most of the time.
- // e.g. The input 'sine' become '*sine*', but the input
- // 'sine OR telemetry' becomes '*sine OR telemetry*' instead of
- // '*sine* OR *telemetry*'
- searchTerm = '*' + searchTerm + '*';
-
+ // Allow exact searches by checking to see if the first and last
+ // chars are quotes.
+ if ((searchTerm.substr(0, 1) === '"' && searchTerm.substr(searchTerm.length - 1, 1) === '"') ||
+ (searchTerm.substr(0, 1) === "'" && searchTerm.substr(searchTerm.length - 1, 1) === "'")) {
+ // Remove the quotes, because of how elasticsearch processses.
+ // This will mean that elasticsearch will return any object that has
+ // that searchTerm as a part of the name _separated by spaces_.
+ searchTerm = searchTerm.substring(1, searchTerm.length - 1);
+ } else {
+ // Put wildcards on front and end to allow substring behavior.
+ // This works when options like AND and OR are not used, which is
+ // the case most of the time.
+ // e.g. The input 'sine' become '*sine*', but the input
+ // 'sine OR telemetry' becomes '*sine OR telemetry*' instead of
+ // '*sine* OR *telemetry*'
+ searchTerm = '*' + searchTerm + '*';
+ }
+
// Get the data...
return $http({
method: "GET",