Remove unused simple query string features

api/api/controllers/search_controller.py

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 import logging
 import logging as log
+import re
 from math import ceil
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING
 
@@ -58,6 +59,7 @@
 QUERY_SPECIAL_CHARACTER_ERROR = "Unescaped special characters are not allowed."
 DEFAULT_BOOST = 10000
 DEFAULT_SEARCH_FIELDS = ["title", "description", "tags.name"]
+DEFAULT_SQS_FLAGS = "AND|NOT|PHRASE|WHITESPACE"
 
 
 def _quote_escape(query_string):
@@ -287,8 +289,11 @@ def build_search_query(
     # individual field-level queries specified.
     if "q" in search_params.data:
         query = _quote_escape(search_params.data["q"])
+        log_query_features(query, query_name="q")
+
         base_query_kwargs = {
             "query": query,
+            "flags": DEFAULT_SQS_FLAGS,
             "fields": DEFAULT_SEARCH_FIELDS,
             "default_operator": "AND",
         }
@@ -301,6 +306,7 @@ def build_search_query(
         quotes_stripped = query.replace('"', "")
         exact_match_boost = Q(
             "simple_query_string",
+            flags=DEFAULT_SQS_FLAGS,
             fields=["title"],
             query=f"{quotes_stripped}",
             boost=10000,
@@ -313,9 +319,11 @@ def build_search_query(
             ("tags", "tags.name"),
         ]:
             if field_value := search_params.data.get(field):
+                log_query_features(field_value, query_name="field")
                 search_queries["must"].append(
                     Q(
                         "simple_query_string",
+                        flags=DEFAULT_SQS_FLAGS,
                         query=_quote_escape(field_value),
                         fields=[field_name],
                     )
@@ -339,6 +347,18 @@ def build_search_query(
     )
 
 
+def log_query_features(query: str, query_name) -> None:
+    flags = [
+        ("PRECEDENCE", r"\(.*\)"),
+        ("ESCAPE", r"\\"),
+        ("FUZZY|SLOP", r"~\d"),
+        ("PREFIX", r"\*"),
+    ]
+    for flag, pattern in flags:
+        if bool(re.search(pattern, query)):
+            log.info(f"Special feature in `{query_name}` query string. {flag}: {query}")
+
+
 def build_collection_query(
     search_params: MediaListRequestSerializer,
     collection_params: dict[str, str],

api/test/unit/controllers/test_search_controller_search_query.py

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 
 from api.controllers import search_controller
 from api.controllers.search_controller import (
+    DEFAULT_SQS_FLAGS,
     FILTERED_PROVIDERS_CACHE_KEY,
     FILTERED_PROVIDERS_CACHE_VERSION,
 )
@@ -71,6 +72,7 @@ def test_create_search_query_q_search_no_filters(media_type_config):
                     "default_operator": "AND",
                     "fields": ["title", "description", "tags.name"],
                     "query": "cat",
+                    "flags": DEFAULT_SQS_FLAGS,
                 }
             }
         ],
@@ -80,14 +82,15 @@ def test_create_search_query_q_search_no_filters(media_type_config):
                     "boost": 10000,
                     "fields": ["title"],
                     "query": "cat",
+                    "flags": DEFAULT_SQS_FLAGS,
                 }
             },
             {"rank_feature": {"boost": 10000, "field": "standardized_popularity"}},
         ],
     }
 
 
-def test_create_search_query_q_search_with_quotes_adds_exact_suffix(media_type_config):
+def test_create_search_query_q_search_with_quotes_adds_raw_suffix(media_type_config):
     serializer = media_type_config.search_request_serializer(
         data={"q": '"The cutest cat"'}
     )
@@ -104,6 +107,7 @@ def test_create_search_query_q_search_with_quotes_adds_exact_suffix(media_type_c
                     "fields": ["title", "description", "tags.name"],
                     "query": '"The cutest cat"',
                     "quote_field_suffix": ".raw",
+                    "flags": DEFAULT_SQS_FLAGS,
                 }
             }
         ],
@@ -113,6 +117,7 @@ def test_create_search_query_q_search_with_quotes_adds_exact_suffix(media_type_c
                     "boost": 10000,
                     "fields": ["title"],
                     "query": "The cutest cat",
+                    "flags": DEFAULT_SQS_FLAGS,
                 }
             },
             {"rank_feature": {"boost": 10000, "field": "standardized_popularity"}},
@@ -152,6 +157,7 @@ def test_create_search_query_q_search_with_filters(image_media_type_config):
                     "default_operator": "AND",
                     "fields": ["title", "description", "tags.name"],
                     "query": "cat",
+                    "flags": DEFAULT_SQS_FLAGS,
                 }
             }
         ],
@@ -161,6 +167,7 @@ def test_create_search_query_q_search_with_filters(image_media_type_config):
                     "boost": 10000,
                     "fields": ["title"],
                     "query": "cat",
+                    "flags": DEFAULT_SQS_FLAGS,
                 }
             },
             {"rank_feature": {"boost": 10000, "field": "standardized_popularity"}},
@@ -188,10 +195,23 @@ def test_create_search_query_non_q_query(image_media_type_config):
                 "simple_query_string": {
                     "fields": ["creator"],
                     "query": "Artist From Openverse",
+                    "flags": DEFAULT_SQS_FLAGS,
+                }
+            },
+            {
+                "simple_query_string": {
+                    "fields": ["title"],
+                    "query": "kitten🐱",
+                    "flags": DEFAULT_SQS_FLAGS,
+                }
+            },
+            {
+                "simple_query_string": {
+                    "fields": ["tags.name"],
+                    "query": "cute",
+                    "flags": DEFAULT_SQS_FLAGS,
                 }
             },
-            {"simple_query_string": {"fields": ["title"], "query": "kitten🐱"}},
-            {"simple_query_string": {"fields": ["tags.name"], "query": "cute"}},
         ],
         "should": [
             {"rank_feature": {"boost": 10000, "field": "standardized_popularity"}},

frontend/src/locales/scripts/en.json5

@@ -177,70 +177,14 @@
       title: "Search for an exact match",
       ariaLabel: "quote unquote Claude Monet",
       claudeMonet: '"Claude Monet"',
-      content: "Put a word or phrase inside quotes. For example, {link}.",
-    },
-    combine: {
-      title: "Combining terms",
-      description: "If you want to combine terms, you can use the following operators to perform more complex queries",
-      and: "{symbol} signifies AND operation",
-      or: "{symbol} signifies OR operation",
-      not: "{symbol} negates a single token",
-      prefix: "{symbol} at the end of a term signifies a prefix query",
-      precedence: "{symbol} signify precedence",
-      fuzziness: "{symbol} after a word signifies edit distance (fuzziness)",
-      ariaLabels: {
-        fuzziness: "tilde N",
-        open: "open parenthesis",
-        close: "close parenthesis",
-        star: "star symbol",
-        not: "minus symbol",
-        and: "plus symbol",
-        or: "vertical bar symbol",
-        prefix: "asterisk symbol",
-        verticalBar: "vertical bar symbol",
-        precedence: "parentheses",
-      },
-    },
-    example: {
-      and: {
-        description: "Example: {link}{br} This will search for images related to both dog and cat.",
-        ariaLabel: "dog plus cat",
-        example: "dog+cat",
-      },
-      or: {
-        description: "Example: {link}{br} This will search for images related to dog or cat, but not necessarily both.",
-        ariaLabel: "dog vertical bar cat",
-        example: "dog|cat",
-      },
-      negate: {
-        description: "You can use the {operator} to exclude a search term from the results.",
-        operatorName: "operator (signifies NOT)",
-        operatorAriaLabel: "minus operator (signifies NOT)",
-        ariaLabel: "dog minus pug",
-        example: "dog -pug",
-        content: "Example: {link}{br} This will search for images related to dog but won't include results related to 'pug'",
-      },
-      prefix: {
-        description: "You can use the {operatorName} to mark a prefix term. This will match anything after the *.",
-        operatorName: "operator (wildcard)",
-        operatorAriaLabel: "star operator (wildcard)",
-        ariaLabel: "net star symbol",
-        example: "net*",
-        content: "Example: {link}{br} This will search for images matching anything with 'net'. This might include 'network', 'Netflix', 'Netherlands', etc.",
-      },
-      precedence: {
-        description: "You can use parentheses {highlight} to specify precedence of terms or combine more complex queries.",
-        ariaLabel: "dogs plus open parenthesis corgis vertical bar labrador close parenthesis",
-        example: "dogs + (corgis | labrador)",
-        content: "Example: {link}{br} This will search for images that match dogs that are either corgis or labrador.",
-      },
-      fuzziness: {
-        description: "You can use {highlight} to specify some fuzzy logic to the term according to the {link} — the number of one character changes that need to be made to one string to make it the same as another string.",
-        linkText: "Levenshtein Edit Distance",
-        ariaLabel: "theatre tilde 1",
-        example: "theatre~1",
-        content: "Example: {link}{br} This will search for images that match strings close to the term 'theatre' with a difference of one character. Results might include terms with different spellings like 'theater'.",
-      },
+      content: "To search for an exact word or phrase, put it inside quotes. For example, {link}.",
+    },
+    negate: {
+      title: "Excluding terms",
+      operatorName: "minus operator",
+      ariaLabel: "dog minus pug",
+      example: "dog -pug",
+      content: 'To exclude a term from your results, put the {operator} in front of it. Example: {link}{br} This will search for media related to "dog" but won\'t include results related to "pug".',
     },
   },
   feedback: {