1270867 - confusing error message when I was just searching for a bug

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: User Interface, defect)

Description

[Joel Maher ( :jmaher ) (UTC -8)]

I went to:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/

and in the single search box, I entered:
Channel timeout: cannot send/recv

and I get this message:
There is a problem with your search:

timeout is not a valid field name.

The legal field names are listed here.


what does legal field name mean, is that valid field name?  why didn't it search bugzilla for my string?

Comment 1

[David Lawrence [:dkl]]

quicksearch deficiency in that it treats field:value as shortcuts for field = value so it thinks your timeout: part is a field in Bugzilla. We should look at treating it as plain string if it does not match any known field.

dkl

Comment 2

[Dylan Hardison [:dylan] (he/him)]

The parser is some serious scary code, but we can probably ignore colons followed by spaces.

Comment 3

[Joel Maher ( :jmaher ) (UTC -8)]

and get rid of the 'legal' word, that made me think I was on a spoofed website and had to triple check the url.

Comment 4

[Dylan Hardison [:dylan] (he/him)]

Attachment: 1270536_1.patch

Also changed "legal" to "valid" per joel's suggestion.

Comment 5

[David Lawrence [:dkl]]

Comment on attachment 8749744 [details] [diff] [review]
1270536_1.patch

Review of attachment 8749744 [details] [diff] [review]:
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Wrong patch for this bug :)

Comment 6

[Dylan Hardison [:dylan] (he/him)]

Attachment: 1270867_1.patch

Comment 7

[David Lawrence [:dkl]]

Comment on attachment 8750764 [details] [diff] [review]
1270867_1.patch

Review of attachment 8750764 [details] [diff] [review]:
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r=dkl

::: template/en/default/global/user-error.html.tmpl
@@ +1662,4 @@
>      [% END %]
>  
>      [% IF unknown.size %]
> +      <p>The valid field names are 

remove trailing whitespace

Comment 8

[Dylan Hardison [:dylan] (he/him)]

To ssh://[e-mail]/webtools/bmo/bugzilla.git
   44a2e60..627be9d  master -> master