381935 - The Bugzilla search feature is broken when using empty search criteria.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Bugzilla :: Query/Bug List, defect)

Description

[Leslie Cutler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: version 3.0

The Bugzilla search feature is broken when using empty search criteria.

1. Go to Bugzilla main page
2. Select Actions -> Search
3. Leave options at default
4. Click "Search"

An error dialog pops up with the following message:

"The Words field cannot be empty. You have to enter at least one word in your
search criteria."

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to Bugzilla main page
2.Select Actions -> Search
3.Leave options at default
4.Click "Search"
Actual Results:  
An error dialog pops up with the following message:

"The Words field cannot be empty. You have to enter at least one word in your
search criteria."

Expected Results:  
A list of all open bugs.

It gave an error.  See "actual results".

Comment 1

[Frédéric Buclin]

That's the desired effect. We no longer let users getting all bugs from the DB this way. If you want all bugs, use the advanced search form.