Certain characters are illegal

[Alex Slade]

I've noticed things like *-. are special characters, should they be filtered out by tanker automatically?

[Paco Viramontes]

Probably! I dont know the character that should be filtered. If you could ask the tanker guys we could add them

[Paco Viramontes]

Could you help me out on this?

[Alex Slade]

Yea sure, I'll find out what needs to be filtered and stick in a patch.

[Paco Viramontes]

any news in this front?

[Alex Slade]

I spoke to the dev team, only * is a special character, but a search of '-' still fails with this error:

"Invalid query: title:(-) OR items:(-) OR __any:(-) __type:("List")"

So I assume it's something to do with how Tanker conducts the search? Any ideas?

[Joe Sak]

I have the same problem and the live dev chat at IndexTank tells me none of those are illegal, but that the client isn't interpreting them correctly from the URL

[Paco Viramontes]

Sorry I have not been able to adress this issues. Its been a couple of very busy weeks! I will into this during the week. If you have an idea on how to fix this please go ahead! I will merge your pull request

[Paco Viramontes]

Can you help me with debugging the issue. can you look for the line on tanker.rb that reads

  results = index.search(query, options)
  SearchState.new(results, fetch, snippets, paginate)

and debug or output the generated query?