When searching by metadata fields don't auto-lowercase metadata field names.

Author: Max Burnette

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -4,6 +4,12 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/)
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
+## 1.7.3 - 2019-08-19
+
+### Fixed
+- Fixed bug where metadata field names in the search box were being forced to lowercase, omitting search results due to
+  case sensitivity.
+
 ## 1.7.2 - 2019-08-01
 
 ### Fixed

app/services/ElasticsearchPlugin.scala

@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ class ElasticsearchPlugin(application: Application) extends Plugin {
   /** Search using a simple text string */
   def search(query: String, index: String = nameOfIndex): List[ResourceRef] = {
     val specialOperators = mustOperators ++ mustNotOperators
-    val queryObj = prepareElasticJsonQuery(query.toLowerCase)
+    val queryObj = prepareElasticJsonQuery(query)
 
     try {
       val response = _search(queryObj, index)
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ class ElasticsearchPlugin(application: Application) extends Plugin {
                      datasetid: Option[String], collectionid: Option[String], spaceid: Option[String], folderid: Option[String],
                      field: Option[String], tag: Option[String], index: String = nameOfIndex): List[ResourceRef] = {
 
-    var expanded_query = query.toLowerCase
+    var expanded_query = query
 
     // whether to restrict to a particular metadata field, or search all fields (including tags, name, etc.)
     val mdfield = field match {
@@ -852,11 +852,11 @@ class ElasticsearchPlugin(application: Application) extends Plugin {
         else
           currterm += mt+":"
       } else if (query.contains(":"+mt) || query.contains(":\""+mt+"\"")) {
-        currterm += mt
+        currterm += mt.toLowerCase()
         terms += currterm
         currterm = ""
       } else {
-        terms += "_all:"+mt
+        terms += "_all:"+mt.toLowerCase()
       }
     })
 

doc/src/sphinx/conf.py

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 author = 'Luigi Marini'
 
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags
-release = '1.7.2'
+release = '1.7.3'
 
 
 # -- General configuration ---------------------------------------------------

project/Build.scala

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import NativePackagerKeys._
 object ApplicationBuild extends Build {
 
   val appName = "clowder"
-  val version = "1.7.2"
+  val version = "1.7.3"
   val jvm = "1.7"
 
   def appVersion: String = {