[Developers] Search API bug?

[Faye Li]

Hi Ketan,

It looks liked you created the topic YayNo on Sandbox about 12 minutes 
ago, but not on production. Data on Sandbox is never duplicated to 
production, which is why you cannot find the topic there (we do normally 
refresh Sandbox data to sync with production every Tuesday though).

As for why you got the result you did on production: Given the term 
"yayn*", the closest topic found on production is "Segolate" (a category 
of Hebrew words), because, if you look over the Wiki article for that 
topic, "*yayn" is given as an example in that article (meaning "wine", 
apparently). Autocomplete and search do more than title matches of 
topics in Freebase, so it found "Segolate".

If you create "yayno" on production, your query will succeed there.

-- Faye


Ketan Anjaria wrote:
> I am doing the following query
> RESULT = {
> "query" : {
> "query" : "yayn*",
> "limit" : "10",
> "type" : "/common/topic",
> "start" : "0",
> },
> "result" : [
> 0 : {
> "image" : {
> },
> "type" : [
> 0 : {
> "id" : "/common/topic",
> "name" : "Topic",
> },
> ],
> "id" : "/topic/en/segolate",
> "alias" : [ ],
> "guid" : "#9202a8c04000641f800000000059fb16",
> "name" : "Segolate",
> "article" : {
> "id" : "/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000059fb1b",
> },
> },
> ],
> "status" : "200 OK",
> "code" : "/api/status/ok",
> }
>
> The term is "yayn*"
> Why does Segolate come back?
>
> Also if I do a search yayno no results are returned
> RESULT = {
> "result" : [ ],
> "status" : "200 OK",
> "code" : "/api/status/error",
> "messages" : [
> 0 : {
> "message" : "No search results found",
> "code" : "/api/status/error/search/empty",
> },
> ],
> }
>
> But this topic does exist on sandbox and shows up in the auto complete 
> there.
> Ideas?
>
> Ketan Anjaria
> fire at kidbombay.com <mailto:fire at kidbombay.com>
> www.kidbombay.com
> 415.260.8742
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