1251657 - bookmarks.search doesn't allow quoted search terms

Status: REOPENED

(WebExtensions :: General, defect, P5)

Description

[Will Bamberg [:wbamberg]]

In Chrome you can search for bookmarks by providing a string containing search terms. Search terms are space-delimited, but you can search for strings that include spaces by quoting them.

So given a bookmarks with a title like "Example Domain":

    example              -> matches
    example domain       -> matches
    domain example       -> matches
    "example domain"     -> matches
    "domain example"     -> does not match


In Firefox, you can't quote search terms:

    example              -> matches
    example domain       -> matches
    domain example       -> matches
    "example domain"     -> does not match
    "domain example"     -> does not match

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/bookmarks/search

Comment 1

[Kris Maglione [:kmag]]

We should try to use the same parser for both of these APIs.

Comment 2

[Andrew Swan [:aswan]]

Confirmed that Chrome actually does match its documented behavior for downloads.search().  Specifically, it only accepts an array for query, not a string.  And the elements of the array are used as search terms without any further parsing or processing.
This is a sane API and I think we should do the same for downloads, bookmarks is obviously complicated by the goal of being compatible with existing Chrome extensions that rely on parsing...

Comment 3

[Andy McKay]

Is this something you still plan on working on this :johannh?

Comment 4

[Johann Hofmann [:johannh]]

Hey Andy, technically I'm still planning to do this but if you folks have capacity or want this done quickly I don't mind giving it up :)

Comment 5

[BMO Automation]

Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.