Search for numbers only does not work

[nhennigan]

Recently an engineer was looking up a port number in our docs and it did not return any results. The number is in fact in our docs. This led to an investigation on why numbers only search requests were returning nothing found.

I believe I have narrowed it down to a certain line in the searchtools.js script which takes the input search string, parses it and then looks up the query in the search index.

      // maybe skip this "word"
      // stopwords array is from language_data.js
      if (
        stopwords.indexOf(queryTermLower) !== -1 ||
        queryTerm.match(/^\d+$/)
      )
        return;

It seems to be a deliberate check implemented to drop any queries that start with a digit. I have tested this on other documentation sets and the issue is also present.

[medubelko]

@nhennigan I can reproduce this locally, but as you say it appears to be caused entirely upstream.

Would you be willing to grab the default Sphinx, test it, and make an upstream issue?

[nhennigan]

Hi Michael, yes I can try that. If it is not an issue on the default Sphinx I will reply again in this thread.