Hi Ivan,
A more common approach is to supply search terms as query parameters (URL?query=...); in that case, your path won’t have new segments. If you prefer paths, you can use a regular expression in your RESTXQ path pattern [1]:
"search/{$query=.+}"
In both cases, encodeURIComponent should be the appropriate function to encode special characters.
Hope this helps, Christian
[1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/RESTXQ#Paths
On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 10:54 AM Ivan Kanakarakis ivan.kanak+basex-talk@gmail.com wrote:
Hello everyone,
I am using BaseX 8.44 and the REST XQ interface (ie, http://docs.basex.org/wiki/RESTXQ). I have an endpoint that, when invoked with GET, it does a full text search (using "$db-nodes[text() contains text { $term } all]"), gets the results, constructs a JSON response and sends it back.
That's all fine and works great. However, I am not sure how I should be doing the queries I describe bellow.
_Note: the query is initiated by a SPA javascript client, thus when I say encode/uri-escape, what I mean is that I invoke the encodeURIComponent function (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Obj...). _Note 2: for the sake of conversation let's consider the example endpoint declared as:
%rest:GET %rest:path("/search/{$term}")
- I want to search for "tea". That is the basic query. A single term,
no problem.
curl -s "https://example.com/search/tea"
- I want to search for "tea time". Now, this query has a space in
between the two words. What I expect to get back, is any node that contains both words (thus I have used "contains text" with "all"), even if they may be a few words apart.
Should I be sending an encoded/uri-escape version of this, ie, "tea%20time"?
Or, should I be replacing the space with "+", ie "tea+time"?
Or, some other advice?
curl -s "https://example.com/search/tea%20time" curl -s "https://example.com/search/tea+time"
- I want to search for "tea/time". This is even trickier. What I
expect to get back, is any node that contains "tea/time", ie a search result for a single term. How do I do this?
- If I do not do anything, the slash is treated as part of the URL,
thus not matching a route.
- If I encoded/uri-escape this term, I get "tea%2Ftime". But, when I
invoke the endpoint I get the same as if there was a slash.
- I am not sure how I should deal with the slash. How should I
escape/encode this?
curl -s "https://example.com/search/tea/time" curl -s "https://example.com/search/tea%2Ftime"Thank you,