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The movie "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" can not be found via search
posted by HolgerSTAFFMOD on March 10, 2014 at 4:24 PM
It's an important movie that won an oscar for best Costume_Design in 1962. :-)
This problem affects website search and api search.
It's most likely because of the question mark. Without the question mark it works, but imho full title searches with correct spelling should work even if the movie title contains unusual characters.
Reply by Travis Bell
on March 11, 2014 at 12:05 PM
Hi holgerbrandl,
Generally speaking, all characters do work, in this case since a question mark is a reserved URL parameter character, I'm fairly confident that's what's wrong.
On the API, you'll have to properly escape it no matter what. On the website, I'll make sure to do that. Regardless though, I'm fairly certain our search lib is converting it at the wrong time. I've created a ticket for this here, and will look at it.
Cheers.
Reply by Holger
on March 11, 2014 at 3:31 PM
Hello Travis,
thank you for your fast reply. I've checked the escaping when using the API, and I still think it's a sever problem: http://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie?api_key=APIKEY&query=What+Ever+Happened+to+Baby+Jane%3F&include_adult=false gives and (incorrect) empty result list. The question mark seems correctly encoded as %3F.
Without the escaped question mark 2 results are obtained (which is the expected answer) http://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie?api_key=APIKEY&query=What+Ever+Happened+to+Baby+Jane&include_adult=false
Maybe the query parameters are escaped again on the sever side?
Cheers, Holger
Reply by Travis Bell
on March 11, 2014 at 3:45 PM
Hi Holger,
Yes, that's what I meant. All I was saying was that even when I fix it on the server side, you'll still have to properly escape your search query.
Reply by Travis Bell
on March 21, 2014 at 2:05 PM
Hi Holger,
I just pushed the fix for this, you can see it working here on the website and you can check this query on the API:
http://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/movie?api_key=###&query=what+ever+happened+to+baby+jane%3F
P.S. The API has that response cached, it will start working in a few hours once the cache has expires.
Cheers.