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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 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!
TaylorKrusenDropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffStefan, 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:
query String 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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