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Bug #9230

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illegal filters return 0 results rather than indicating an error

Added by Joshua Randall almost 8 years ago. Updated almost 8 years ago.

Status:
Duplicate
Priority:
Normal
Assigned To:
-
Category:
API
Target version:
-
Story points:
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Description

For example, if I accidentally use "=" instead of "==" as the comparison operator, I get 0 items back without any indication that there is no way that filter could ever match:

# arv collection list -f '[["modified_at","=","2016-05-18T13:22:11Z"]]' -l 0
{
 "kind":"arvados#collectionList",
 "etag":"",
 "self_link":"",
 "offset":0,
 "limit":0,
 "items":[],
 "items_available":0
}
# arv collection list -f '[["modified_at","==","2016-05-18T13:22:11Z"]]' -l 0
{
 "kind":"arvados#collectionList",
 "etag":"",
 "self_link":"",
 "offset":0,
 "limit":0,
 "items":[],
 "items_available":2597859
}


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Is duplicate of Arvados - Bug #7166: [API] specifying an invalid filter should result in an errorNewActions
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Updated by Brett Smith almost 8 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Duplicate

Josh,

You actually have the opposite problem you think you do. = is the correct filter operator (it's SQL-based). The filter with == gets silently ignored and returns all collections. That makes this a duplicate of #7166.

I believe the first filter is returning 0 results because our timestamps have microsecond precision. This may only match collections created at 2016-05-18T13:22:11.000000Z. Consider [['modified_at', '>=', '2016-05-18T13:22:11Z'], ['modified_at', '<', '2016-05-18T13:22:12Z']].

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