Cannot search for publishers with commas in name

[kattjevfel]

Steps to reproduce

1. Add a publisher with a comma (like Seven Seas Entertainment, LLC.) to a series
2. Click on the publisher name from the series page
3. Get The active filter has no matches

Expected behavior

Komga should find series from that publisher

Actual behavior

Komga can't find anything

Logs

No response

Komga version

1.2.1

Operating system

Arch Linux

Other details

This metadata was imported via AnisearchKomga, in case you're normally not supposed to be able to even enter commas, and this tool just happened to break everything.

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[gotson]

This is a tricky case. Filters are passed to the backend via query parameters. Query parameters can be passed on different ways in case there are multiple values, either a single parameter with comma separated values a=b,c, or a repeated parameter each with a value a=b&a=c.

Spring is smart enough to handle various cases, however when you pass a single value that is comma separated, it throws the logic off.

If you were to filter on that publisher and another one, it works as expected.

For reference I found other people have the same issue spring-projects/spring-framework#23820 and spring-projects/spring-framework#29411

Seems like it's a Spring problem which won't get fixed, I would need to test some of the proposed workarounds.

[gotson]

I've spent a decent amount of time today trying to fix this, and unfortunately there is no good solution for the moment. Changing the logic used for splitting parameters with the , would introduce more problems elsewhere.

The best course of action would be to move from a GET request with request parameters to a search object in the body of the request.

[Mahesh-Vemula]

@gotson Adding below method inside controlled fixed this issue.

@InitBinder
	public void initBinder(WebDataBinder binder) {
		binder.registerCustomEditor(List.class, new CustomCollectionEditor(List.class));
	}

[gotson]

@gotson Adding below method inside controlled fixed this issue.

@InitBinder
	public void initBinder(WebDataBinder binder) {
		binder.registerCustomEditor(List.class, new CustomCollectionEditor(List.class));
	}

it tried this but it breaks other stuff