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Searching tags with a string with more than two characters results in a 500
Trying to filter tags with a string bigger than two characters results in an internal server error (500).
Example URLs:
- https://software.codidact.com/categories/38/tags?q=dat
- https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags?q=dat
Other details:
- it seems to affect multiple communities
- it does not matter if I am logged in or not
- filtering works fine if I use a filter string with less or equal to two characters. Example: https://electrical.codidact.com/categories/26/tags?q=da
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I suspect it's a 500 if the search is not found in any tags. I can reproduce with a single-char search of z on Software. This is wild speculation, but maybe there's some item access that can't deal with a null or empty array of results.
Thanks to Monica and Trichoplax's 2-char demos for putting me on this track.
Update
There's a serialization tag, so it can't be based on empty results, at least not if the search is just %term%.
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This one has been a thorn in our sides for a while, but I think we've finally fixed 500s from tag search for all of the cases that were breaking. It turns out that our pagination code did not like empty result sets, oops.
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