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Added special handling for search tokens beginning with @ #857

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Expand Up @@ -37,6 +37,14 @@ def get(self, base36_id=None):

current_user_obj = self.get_current_user_object()
q = self.get_argument("q", "")

# Take care of an mysql specific case where prepending an @ to a token
# causes a query syntax error. Wrap any token like that in double
# quotes first.
# More info: @distance fulltext search proximity operator
# https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.4/en/fulltext-boolean.html
q = re.sub(r'(?<!")(\B@[\w\-]+)(?!")', r'"\1"', q)

@bradchoate bradchoate Dec 22, 2025

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Can this be done in lib.utilities.clean_search_term?


context = self.get_argument("context", "")
if context:
q = q + " " + context
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