[TEK-devel] [ tek-Bugs-1337795 ] NOT terms don't work

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Bugs item #1337795, was opened at 2005-10-25 15:45
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Category: TEK Client
Group: None
>Status: Closed
Resolution: None
Priority: 9
Submitted By: Bill Thies (billthies)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: NOT terms don't work

Initial Comment:
There is something broken with the parsing of "NOT"
terms in the local search results.  The server seems to
recognize the right query, but searching for not terms
locally will never bring up results.

Note that it works fine if you just use the plain
search form, but precede the not term with minuses, as
with google syntax:

"united states presidents" -bush

The bug lies in the complicated construction/parsing of
NOT's in the client.

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>Comment By: Bill Thies (billthies)
Date: 2005-12-03 11:58

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Fixed.

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Comment By: Bill Thies (billthies)
Date: 2005-11-25 11:49

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Here are some more details.

I suspect the bug is in the function:

tek.client.proxy.proxymain.SocketHandler.termToHtml

or in the way that it is called within the same file.  
Generally, this function is trying to convert a terms from 
the form:

"united states presidents" NOT bush

into a form:

"united states presidents" -bush

But it is complicated by possible quotation marks in the 
not terms, for example:

"united states presidents" NOT "george bush" 

should be converted to

"united states presidents" -"george bush"

There is a related function here:

tek.client.proxy.query.QuerySearchHandler.getNOTterms()

It's relationship to the above function should be 
clarified (I have not investigated it yet).




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