477608 - xpcshell unittest: test_places/autocomplete/test_special_search.js fails to find bookmarks with regex type characters

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Places, defect, P3)

Description

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

in testing the xpcshell tests on Fennec, I run into this case where all tests appear to fail:
test_places/autocomplete/test_special_search.js

What happens is we add bookmarks, then search using characters like ^, *, +.  We don't seem to be returning anything.

For instructions on how to run xpcshell tests on fennec, please visit:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec_Xpcshell

Comment 1

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

moving to toolkit/places as this is for a specific test, not a test harness or fennec.

Comment 2

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

Those just determine which query we use.  * is for searching bookmarks, + is for searching tags, and I think ^ is for searching typed entries.

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

yeah, actually it's not possible to search restriction chars. not sure what to do about that, apart from picking better chars more unlikely to change the search results.