Searching ignores less than 3 chars words

[Will Cooke]

This seems to be related to the key being searched in G-S.

There is a snap called "oh my giraffe". When you click on the snap to show the details page the two titles at the top of the screen show "oh my giraffe".

However, this only shows up in the results when you search for "ohmygiraffe" or "oh". Searching for "oh my" (note the space) returns zero results.

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

The command line finds using these terms:
$ snap find 'oh my'
Name Version Developer Notes Summary
ohmygiraffe 1.1.0a popey - oh my giraffe

The weird thing is gnome-software should be sending the same thing...

Note that searching for "oh" doesn't work in GNOME Software - it doesn't search until you type three characters.

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Ah, seems to be a bug(?) in GNOME Software - it's only actually throwing away any search word less that 3 characters. So the search "oh my" is rejected because none of the words are long enough. "oh my gir" would just search with "gir".

I would have thought having a total number of characters more than three should be sufficient.

Note the reason for the limitation is for the appstream search functionality (too many matches with a small number of characters).