292753 - "Does Not Equal" fails to work in Boolean Charts

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Bugzilla :: Query/Bug List, defect)

Description

[Marc Pierre]

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Equals to a string ==> works perfectly
Does not equal a string ==> does not work at all

With the exact same string I can create a report with the EQUALS a string
but when I try to exclude (does not equal) that exact same string my results
are not any different... it excludes nothing even though the string is present.



Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Marc Schumann [:Wurblzap]]

Marc, in order to reproduce this, can you please put the URL of your faulty
search into the URL field of this bug? When you run your search, the "Edit
search" link below the search results contains the URL I'm looking for.

Comment 2

[Joel Peshkin]

Also, please include the version number

Comment 3

[Marc Pierre]

Bugzilla Version 2.16.5 

Comment 4

[Marc Pierre]

http://bugzilla/buglist.cgi?
short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&component=PCIS+Regression&long_desc_t
ype=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&bug
_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=RESOLVED&emailass
igned_to1=1&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&em
ailcc2=1&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&changedin
=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&namedcmd=Marc&newqueryna
me=&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=longdesc&type0-0-
0=notregexp&value0-0-0=pierre.*

Even using a simple value not = to a string instead of the REGEXP it does 
notwork.... nothing with DOES NOT = works using a COMMENT FIELD 

Comment 5

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Oh, 2.16 -- that's pretty old. There have also been a few 2.16.x releases since
yours. You definitely want to upgrade to 2.18, if you can. If this bug affects
only 2.16, we probably won't be fixing it, because 2.16 is in deep maintenance mode.

Comment 6

[Joel Peshkin]

I fixed a large number of boolean chart issues in 2.19 as well..  You can try
this in 2.19 (bugzilla-tip) at http://landfill.bugzilla.org/ as well as getting
access to the other versions.

Comment 7

[Frédéric Buclin]

The reason you get the same results is that you are querying comments, and if a comment doesn't contain the string you want to exclude but another one has, it will be included in both cases, depending on which one you are looking for.

I did some tests on both 2.18.4 and 2.21.1, using "equals", "doesn't equal", "match regexp", "doesn't match regexp" and either the status whiteboard or comments. Results are the ones I expected. So WFM.