Remove zero-length terms

Fix term check on empty text

Author: Ivan ROGER

lib/search-query-parser.js

@@ -45,8 +45,7 @@ exports.parse = function (string, options) {
       var term = match[0];
       var sepIndex = term.indexOf(':');
       if (sepIndex !== -1) {
-        var split = term.split(':'),
-            key = term.slice(0, sepIndex),
+        var key = term.slice(0, sepIndex),
             val = term.slice(sepIndex + 1);
         // Strip surrounding quotes
         val = val.replace(/^\"|\"$|^\'|\'$/g, '');
@@ -92,6 +91,11 @@ exports.parse = function (string, options) {
           }
         });
 
+        if (term.length === 0) {
+          // Ignore empty strings after cleanup
+          continue
+        }
+
         if (isExcludedTerm) {
           if (exclusion['text']) {
             if (exclusion['text'] instanceof Array) {
@@ -119,7 +123,7 @@ exports.parse = function (string, options) {
     var term;
     while (term = terms.pop()) {
       // When just a simple term
-      if (term.text) {
+      if (term.text !== undefined) {
         // We add it as pure text
         query.text.push(term.text);
         // When offsets is true, push a new offset

test/test.js

@@ -118,6 +118,35 @@ describe('Search query syntax parser', function () {
     parsedAfterStringifySearchQuery.should.be.eql(parsedSearchQuery);
   });
 
+  it('should return a tokenized string without empty text terms', function () {
+    var searchQuery = "fancy pyjama wear ''";
+    var options = { tokenize: true };
+    var parsedSearchQuery = searchquery.parse(searchQuery, options);
+
+    parsedSearchQuery.should.be.an.Object;
+    parsedSearchQuery.should.have.property('text', ['fancy', 'pyjama', 'wear']);
+
+    var parsedAfterStringifySearchQuery = searchquery.parse(searchquery.stringify(parsedSearchQuery, options), options);
+    parsedAfterStringifySearchQuery.offsets = undefined;
+    parsedSearchQuery.offsets = undefined;
+    parsedAfterStringifySearchQuery.should.be.eql(parsedSearchQuery);
+  });
+
+  it('should return a simple string without empty text terms', function () {
+    var searchQuery = "key:value fancy pyjama wear ''";
+    var options = { keywords: ['key'] };
+    var parsedSearchQuery = searchquery.parse(searchQuery, options);
+
+    parsedSearchQuery.should.be.an.Object;
+    parsedSearchQuery.should.have.property('text', 'fancy pyjama wear');
+    parsedSearchQuery.should.have.property('key', 'value');
+
+    var parsedAfterStringifySearchQuery = searchquery.parse(searchquery.stringify(parsedSearchQuery, options), options);
+    parsedAfterStringifySearchQuery.offsets = undefined;
+    parsedSearchQuery.offsets = undefined;
+    parsedAfterStringifySearchQuery.should.be.eql(parsedSearchQuery);
+  });
+
   it('should parse a single keyword with no text', function () {
     var searchQuery = 'from:jul@foo.com';
     var options = {keywords: ['from']};