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/search lists files that do not match the query
As of yesterday June 25, 2019 2:00am GMT+0200 our test suite beeped and shows that the `/search` endpoint outputs results that do not match the query string. Request body: {path: "/tests", query: ...
TaylorKrusen
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHi!
Thanks for the detail. I'm looking into it.
Can you confirm whether the tests were running correctly in the past? Did they start failing without any changes being made to the code?
Hey Taylor,
yes I can confirm that. Our network test suite runs five times each night and we had five successful runs on the 24th and five failing runs for the same commit on the 25th with the respective test against your /search API failing as described above. What may have changed however between the runs is the contents of the Dropbox account that we use for testing.
Greetings
Stefan- TaylorKrusen
Hi Stefan!
Apologies for the delay. I was able to repro the issue and have filed a bug with engineering. I'll keep you in the loop when I hear back.
Thank you for letting us know!
- TaylorKrusen
Stefan, is this behavior having an impact on your production application, too?
I don't have full context of the decision, but learned that this is a change in the default behavior of the endpoint.
In the 'Parameters' section of the file /search endpoint docs:queryString The string to search for. The search string is split on spaces into multiple tokens. For file name searching, the last token is used for prefix matching (i.e. "bat c" matches "bat cave" but not "batman car").Basically, the `query` parameter doesn't guarantee a substring match. The docs could be a little clearer here.
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