[aur-dev] Regexp Support for AUR package search; wouldn't it be nice?
Hi, I did a `grep -R LIKE aur-1.6.0` and it seems to me that changing four of those LIKE's to RLIKE would add Regexp support for package search. Currently, the only "regexp" supported by AUR are % and _. I think AUR should really somehow grow some support for real regular expressions. I'm not aware of any issue this may introduce, except for a little bit heavier on resources; adding a timeout on queries should avoid shitty regexp queries as well. I'm sorry I have zero experience in PHP, or I would have done a patch for this.
On Mon 22 Mar 2010 02:51 +0800, lolilolicon wrote:
Hi, I did a `grep -R LIKE aur-1.6.0` and it seems to me that changing four of those LIKE's to RLIKE would add Regexp support for package search.
Currently, the only "regexp" supported by AUR are % and _. I think AUR should really somehow grow some support for real regular expressions.
I'm not aware of any issue this may introduce, except for a little bit heavier on resources; adding a timeout on queries should avoid shitty regexp queries as well.
Yeah it's something I've considered, but I haven't had a chance to explore the issues that it may introduce.
On 03/28/10 at 01:49pm, Loui Chang wrote:
On Mon 22 Mar 2010 02:51 +0800, lolilolicon wrote:
Hi, I did a `grep -R LIKE aur-1.6.0` and it seems to me that changing four of those LIKE's to RLIKE would add Regexp support for package search.
Currently, the only "regexp" supported by AUR are % and _. I think AUR should really somehow grow some support for real regular expressions.
I'm not aware of any issue this may introduce, except for a little bit heavier on resources; adding a timeout on queries should avoid shitty regexp queries as well.
Yeah it's something I've considered, but I haven't had a chance to explore the issues that it may introduce.
Will resources be an issue? I hope RLIKE or REGEXP won't introduce too much server load. I don't know if one can do some "regexp query attack" so it seems to me a harmless progress to make. Maybe put up an "aur-testing" page so users can help testing it out, then you guys can make the final decisions? Cheers
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