Query Feature says Bad Request

[ghost]

Since some days now, the Query Feature feature consistently fails with Error contacting https://overpass-api.de/api/interpreter: Bad Request.

The query it appears to be sending is (split on multiple lines and indented):

[timeout:10][out:json];
(
  node(around:10,40.68925,-74.04454);
  way(around:10,40.68925,-74.04454)
);
out+tags+geom(40.688320248612015,-74.04532760381699,40.69015880670406,-74.04373168945312);
relation(around:10,40.68925,-74.04454);
out+geom(40.688320248612015,-74.04532760381699,40.69015880670406,-74.04373168945312);

[tomhughes]

Unfortunately that service is outside our control - all we can do is send it queries and hope.

[tomhughes]

So I assumed you meant a general failure of the overpass service but actually it's only one of the queries that is failing, and it is actually reporting an error if you dig a bit deeper in the inspector:

Error: line 1: parse error: ';' expected - ')' found.
Error: line 1: parse error: Unexpected end of input.
Error: line 1: static error: Element "print" cannot be subelement of element "union".
Error: line 1: static error: Element "print" cannot be subelement of element "union". 

I have no idea what it means though... I assume that the initial segment is the "union" but I have no idea which item is the "print" it is complaining about.

[tomhughes]

Ah I think it wants a semicolon after the second entry in the union.

[mmd-osm]

Yes, the semicolon was missing. Roland deployed version 0.7.55 on one of the two production servers earlier today, and this version has a slightly more restrictive syntax check with regards to the union statement. The other server currently still runs on 0.7.54, so there's like a 50% chance you would hit this issue today.

Edit: May 1st: both production servers are on 0.7.55 now.

I applied pretty much the same change to a number of examples on the Overpass by Example page in the wiki.

[ghost]

So I assumed you meant a general failure of the overpass service

Err yeah, my bad, I wasn't clear. I had seen the more detailed error messages but I had forgotten to write about them.

[westnordost]

Hmm, if 0.7.55 introduces changes that make previously-working queries fail, shouldn't it be named 0.8.0 then?

[mmd-osm]

Overpass uses a different versioning schema: this is really a change from 0.7.54.13 to 0.7.55 (.0).

[drolbr]

I'm sorry. If was of course not intended to break things.

However, the omission of the semicolon never was intended as valid syntax. And I never checked that that worked and that anybody used that. I'm sorry for the inconvenience. Thank you, M1dgard for reporting the thing and thank you, Tom, for fixing it.