Search filter with special characters

[alebian]

Hi everyone!

• What would you like to be able to do? Can you provide some examples?

If I store some special characters in a column and want to use a filter to search, the search term is not included because of the regexp here. For example in my project I have defined a filter called sender and an email field that I want to search. If I search sender:test it works but then when I do it like sender:[email protected] it does not. Debugging a little I found that line causing the issue.

• How could we go about implementing that?

Changing the regexp to allow more symbols like @ and .: /^#{filter}:[\w|@|\.]*$/

• Can you think of other approaches to the problem?

It can be simplified as valid_filters&.any? { |filter| word.starts_with?("#{filter}:") }

If you think this approach is fine I can make a PR for it. I monkey patched that class with the first version and its the code I'm currently using.

Regards,
Alejandro

[pablobm]

Thank you for bringing this up 🙂 Something similar (not exactly the same thing) was raised at #2228, but it appears to have gone dormant. If you create PR, I'll be happy to review it.

[pablobm]

I think we can close this after #2260 🙂