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Possible bug when adding certain names
posted by linekerSTAFFMOD on May 19, 2013 at 6:28 AM
I was trying to add director Alexandra-Therese Keining (562589) for a new entry (194545) and as usual I copied the full name. However, I did not get any suggestions. Then I tried some different things. It was the first choice when adding "Alexandra-" and the same for "Alexandra-Theres". But when copying "Alexandra-Therese" - with the e at the end - I again got no suggestions. Strange.
Reply by lineker
on May 22, 2013 at 5:50 AM
I got exactly the same issue with Paul McCarthy-Boyington. So it's a minor problem related to having a double name of some kind with a certain number of characters perhaps?
Reply by lineker
on May 23, 2013 at 5:53 PM
A different search issue just came up. Searching for Dominique Roy gives nothing while Dominiqu Roy gets the correct profile.
Actually, searching for just Dominique gets nothing and Dominiqu gets 210 people and 2 movies. Weird!
Reply by lineker
on May 25, 2013 at 8:03 PM
One more. John Michael Higgins gets nothing. while John Michal Higgins gets to the profile.
Reply by ATVGuy
on May 26, 2013 at 9:19 AM
Likewise searching for "Michael Clayton" gets nothing while "Michal Clayton" fetches the movie
Reply by Travis Bell
on May 27, 2013 at 10:41 AM
I know what was causing the "michael" issue and just pushed the fix for it. "Dominique Roy" should also be working fine now, looks like it is, I just tested it.
The "Alexandra-Therese Keining" and "Paul McCarthy-Boyington" issues are a little more confusing. Not sure about those yet, I'm looking into it right now.
Reply by Travis Bell
on May 27, 2013 at 11:14 AM
Ok, I figured this out. It's actually a characters limit thing. If you count characters and notice when they all start failing, it's at character 16. This is because I was only storing a maximum of a 15 character ngram (the autocomplete feature).
I'm updating this to 30 and it should fix it. The change won't go live for a day or two though. It should be pushed within the week. Thanks.
Reply by lineker
on May 27, 2013 at 12:02 PM
Excellent! Thanks Travis.
Reply by Travis Bell
on June 8, 2013 at 2:00 PM
Can you give some of these a try now? Some of these issues were fixed this week.
Reply by lineker
on June 8, 2013 at 2:31 PM
All examples above are working. I also tried a different one (Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick) and it worked as well.
Reply by lineker
on September 30, 2013 at 4:18 PM
I'm opening this one again since I found another one. I added Jake Oelman and he does neither appear when searching nor as a drop-down option. Probably related to the "oe".
Reply by Travis Bell
on September 30, 2013 at 4:27 PM
Yup, here's the relevant ticket: http://tmdb.lighthouseapp.com/projects/83076-website/tickets/523-look-into-why-oe-isnt-being-returned-with-searches#ticket-523-2
Reply by lineker
on September 30, 2013 at 5:11 PM
I should have checked there first! Thanks Travis.
Reply by lineker
on February 13, 2014 at 5:58 PM
Now this is a strange one. 10 minutes ago I added Dan Wachspress as a director for One Take. Then I was going to add him as a writer as well, but he didn't appear. And now he still doesn't appear when searching.
My first theory is that it could have something to do with the chspr sequence in the last name, but that's just a guess.
Reply by Travis Bell
on February 13, 2014 at 6:57 PM
Looks like the background indexer crashed. I'll get it restarted and within a few minutes it should be available.
EDIT: Looks good: https://www.themoviedb.org/search?query=Dan+Wachspress
Reply by lineker
on February 13, 2014 at 7:53 PM
Thanks for the fix!