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peterlu's avatar
peterlu
Champion
11 years ago

rest api - search blog by label

Hi Guys,   User case: A blog has 3 labels set "Apple", "Banana", "Test Space"   Here are the rest calls that works: /search/messages?q=is_root:true%20AND%20labels:(Apple)&include_blogs=true /se...
  • AdamN's avatar
    AdamN
    11 years ago

    I'm not sure exactly why this occurs, but I've worked around similar issues in the past by replacing the space with %3F, which is the encoded form of ?. In the search query, the question mark character represents a single-character wildcard and seems to do the trick.

  • PaoloT's avatar
    PaoloT
    11 years ago
    I would also try with %22Test%20Space%22 , where %22 is the encoding for " (although I haven't tried that myself so I am not 100% sure)
nathan's avatar
nathan
Executive
11 years ago

Good question - I did a little experiment, including replacing the space with a + or %2B, but couldn't get any results.

 

AdamN, PaoloT - do you know how to search for labels with spaces in them?

  • AdamN's avatar
    AdamN
    Khoros Oracle
    11 years ago

    I'm not sure exactly why this occurs, but I've worked around similar issues in the past by replacing the space with %3F, which is the encoded form of ?. In the search query, the question mark character represents a single-character wildcard and seems to do the trick.

    • PaoloT's avatar
      PaoloT
      Lithium Alumni (Retired)
      11 years ago
      I would also try with %22Test%20Space%22 , where %22 is the encoding for " (although I haven't tried that myself so I am not 100% sure)
      • peterlu's avatar
        peterlu
        Champion
        11 years ago

        Thanks PaoloT, you are right, this works.

        <#assign testcount = restadmin("/search/messages/count?q=is_root:true%20AND%20labels:(%22test%20space%22)").value />

         This returns a total count of all root messages that have "test space" label set.