Search not working for discussions created via API

pedrorezende

Hi everyone.

There is a very strange behavior happening on my Flarum installation. I'm using the API to create a discussion and an initial post for it.

Everything on the interface looks perfect, I can see the discussion and reply with multiple users with different access levels. But when I try to search for it I get no results. Even trying with the exact words.

However, when I start a discussion using Flarum interface, everything works fine with the search. Also, when I reply to a discussion started with the API, I can find the comment but not the discussion or initial post.

Am I missing something on the way?

Thank you!

EDIT: this is an example of payload I'm sending to the API (from my backend)

Method: POST
URL: http://localhost/api/discussions

Headers:
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Token supersecretkeygeneratedforadmin
Body:
{
    "data": {
        "type": "discussions",
        "attributes": {
            "title": "Cool Flarum Test",
            "content": "Flarum is great!"
        },
        "relationships": {
            "tags": {
                "data": [
                    {
                        "type": "tags",
                        "id": "2"
                    }
                ]
            }
        }
    }
}

luceos

Is the discussion showing in the database? What properties does it have?

pedrorezende

Hi @luceos . I made some more tests earlier today and checked that it's not actually behaving like I mentioned. I'll try to explain below, but what should I do with this discussion? Should I delete and recreate (explaining better what it's going on) or just put an observation in the beginning of the discussion?

So I'm creating automated discussions on Flarum using its API. All of them have a button linking to my main website as the content of the initial post. Some of them have an intro text before this button.

What I observed is that Flarum seems to be searching only using the post contents as a criteria (despite of being highlighting both title and post content on the user interface, if the search term appears on both). Below is an example to illustrate that.

Discussion:

id,title,comment_count,participant_count,post_number_index,created_at,user_id,first_post_id,last_posted_at,last_posted_user_id,last_post_id,last_post_number,hidden_at,hidden_user_id,slug,is_private,is_approved,is_locked,is_sticky
217,"The Cause Of Fast Radio Bursts To Be Discovered In 2018?",1,1,1,"2020-07-03 22:25:37",1,223,"2020-07-03 22:25:37",1,223,1,NULL,NULL,the-cause-of-fast-radio-bursts-to-be-discovered-in-2018,0,1,0,0

Post:

id,discussion_id,number,created_at,user_id,type,content,edited_at,edited_user_id,hidden_at,hidden_user_id,ip_address,is_private,is_approved
223,217,1,"2020-07-03 22:25:37",1,comment,"<r><p>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Fast radio bursts (FRBs) can generate as much energy as 500 million Suns in mere milliseconds and could be occurring every single second - but we still have very little insight into what's causing these crazy powerful explosions in our Universe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</p>

<p><URL url="https://example.com/q/12345"><s>[</s>View Question<e>](https://example.com/q/12345)</e></URL></p></r>",NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,::1,0,1

Just to summarize what's above, I have a discussion with the following content:

Title: The Cause Of Fast Radio Bursts To Be Discovered In 2018?
Initial post content: Fast radio bursts (FRBs) can generate as much energy as 500 million Suns in mere milliseconds and could be occurring every single second - but we still have very little insight into what's causing these crazy powerful explosions in our Universe

If I search for "Discovered", I get no results. If I search for "Radio", this discussion appears. This is what actually happening among other posts I mentioned. My previous tests were biased because I was creating manually the discussions copying and pasting the discussion title on the content.

Is this a bug I should report? Or is there a configuration I need to set somewhere?

Thank you!

clarkwinkelmann

pedrorezende titles were previously included in the search, but currently are not. Luceos just recently explained why in luceos

The bug here is that we should probably remove the highlight from the title in the results. The highlight is done client-side and is probably a leftover from when both title and content were searched.

pedrorezende

clarkwinkelmann Oh, ok! I didn't see that thread. Thanks for the input. Is there any open issue to fix those performance issues or the title search is completely discarded for now?