Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] problem with "Enhanced" bug queries in Savannah

[Ineiev]

Hello,

On Fri, Sep 02, 2022 at 04:23:49PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
...
> Then, I click open the "Display Criteria" widget, and change the "Browse
> with the" list box control from "Basic" to "Enhanced", because I want to
> filter items by "Planned Release", and even the "Advanced" query
> interface doesn't enable that.  I then click the "Apply" button to
> submit the form.
...

Tracker admins can add custom query types for their tracker. "Enhanced"
in groff bug tracker is such custom query; it includes "Closed on"
both as an output column and as a selection criterion...

[reordered]
> 5. Even if I change the operators from "greater than" to "less than", I
>    _still_ get no results.  This is because the "Open/Closed" control is
>    still on "Open", and the "close_date_op" filter is still applied.
...

...and when a date field is undefined, it matches no range [0],
so it makes the query unsuitable for browsing items that have never
been closed.

[0] 
https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/administration/savane.git/tree/frontend/php/include/trackers_run/browse.php?id=8fefb52bdf34a501c56cb403dd225b665050aa4a#n443

> 1. Once the "Enhanced" form has been presented, there's no way via the
>    controls on the page to omit them.  The filter always applies.

Correct; this is why various query types exist.

> 2. The dates always default to the current date and the _greater than_
>    operator.  This is guaranteed to fail.  No bugs are ever submitted or
>    closed in the future.

Good point.

> 3. There's no option in the controls to disable these two filters.

Strictly speaking, there is---for tracker's admins when defining
the query type.

> 6. To really use the filtering-by-date feature, you have to edit the URL
>    by hand.  This is tedious.
> 
> 7. Erasing the operator from the chunk of the HTTP GET query doesn't
>    work, possibly because there's no empty or null option for the date
>    ordering operator.  It defaults to the first item in the list, which
>    is "<".  (This appears to be true for both "date_op" and
>    "close_date_op".)  You have to remove these chunks entirely.

I don't understand how these are possible.

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