[Doxygen-users] Bug in doxysearch.cpp?

[Keith R. <Kei...@ne...>]

Hi,

We use the webserver doxygen search capability using the provided doxysearch.cgi and doxyindexer. We noticed an issue when searching for a particular word (a C++ namespace) and a blank screen appeared in the search results. After debugging it appears that one of the returned search items is a global variable, something like:

const std::string TheNamespace::g_Name("some text");

The search query used was TheNamespace. The search tagged this item as a "function" type. The resultant JSON was:

start omitted ...
"type": "function",
"name": "TheNamespace::g_Name("some text")",
"tag",
... end omitted.

The value of "name" is invalid JSON due to the quotes in the constructor (the console output of Chrome also reported an error - presumably from the getJSON call in the searchFor JavaScript function).

In our local version of doxysearch.cpp I wrapped the call to "doc.get_value(FIELD_ARGS)" in a call to escapeString() which seems to fix the problem.

Hope this helps!

Keith