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peterlu's avatar
peterlu
Champion
12 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
    12 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
    12 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

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
12 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)
    12 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
      12 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.

       

      • peterlu's avatar
        peterlu
        Champion
        12 years ago

        I am just playing around and find something interesting.

        You can set a label exactly like this:

        a" b'c+d

        This label includes " and space and ' and +.

        It is funny that lithium alows you to set a label like this.

        I guess it is not possible to do rest api /search/messages for that label :)

        Maybe only wildcard can do this: eg. a??b?c?d