From 9e1ef95788c027451218adc7759ade935fd154a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ali Alam <aalam@ichk.edu.hk>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 10:57:18 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] System: fixed issue with search terms containing a : (special
 character) (#1904)

Co-authored-by: Ali Alam <aali@ichk.edu.hk>
---
 src/Domain/QueryCriteria.php            |  8 ++++----
 tests/unit/Domain/QueryCriteriaTest.php | 20 ++++++++++----------
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/Domain/QueryCriteria.php b/src/Domain/QueryCriteria.php
index 65839433a8..92733d93da 100644
--- a/src/Domain/QueryCriteria.php
+++ b/src/Domain/QueryCriteria.php
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ public function searchBy($column, $text = null)
      */
     private function applyAdvancedSearchFilters($text)
     {
-        $text = preg_replace_callback('/(\w*\:[\w\-]*|(?:"[^"]*"))+/', function ($matches) {
+        $text = preg_replace_callback('/(\w*\:\:[\w\-]*|(?:"[^"]*"))+/', function ($matches) {
             $this->filterBy($matches[0]);
             return '';
         }, $text);
@@ -309,8 +309,8 @@ public function filterBy($name, $value = null)
     {
         if (empty($name)) return $this;
 
-        if (stripos($name, ':') !== false) {
-            list($name, $value) = array_pad(explode(':', $name, 2), 2, '');
+        if (stripos($name, '::') !== false) {
+            list($name, $value) = array_pad(explode('::', $name, 2), 2, '');
             $value = str_replace('"', '', $value);
         }
 
@@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ public function getFilterValue($name)
     public function getFilterString()
     {
         return implode(' ', array_map(function($value, $name) {
-            return stripos($value, ' ') !== false ? $name.':"'.$value .'"' : $name.':'.$value;
+            return stripos($value, ' ') !== false ? $name.'::"'.$value .'"' : $name.'::'.$value;
         }, $this->criteria['filterBy'], array_keys($this->criteria['filterBy'])));
     }
 
diff --git a/tests/unit/Domain/QueryCriteriaTest.php b/tests/unit/Domain/QueryCriteriaTest.php
index 630cb8d0b3..a1fed9ceaa 100644
--- a/tests/unit/Domain/QueryCriteriaTest.php
+++ b/tests/unit/Domain/QueryCriteriaTest.php
@@ -141,28 +141,28 @@ public function testCanGetAllSearches()
 
     public function testCanAddFilterToSearchString()
     {
-        $this->criteria->searchBy('columnName', 'foo bar active:Y');
+        $this->criteria->searchBy('columnName', 'foo bar active::Y');
 
         $this->assertTrue($this->criteria->hasFilter('active', 'Y'));
         if (method_exists($this, 'assertStringNotContainsString')) {
             // for newer phpunit versions
-            $this->assertStringNotContainsString('active:Y', $this->criteria->getSearchText());
+            $this->assertStringNotContainsString('active::Y', $this->criteria->getSearchText());
         } else {
             // for older phpunit versions
-            $this->assertNotContains('active:Y', $this->criteria->getSearchText());
+            $this->assertNotContains('active::Y', $this->criteria->getSearchText());
         }
     }
 
     public function testCanFilterByString()
     {
-        $this->criteria->filterBy('foo:bar');
+        $this->criteria->filterBy('foo::bar');
 
         $this->assertTrue($this->criteria->hasFilter('foo', 'bar'));
     }
 
     public function testCanFilterByQuotedString()
     {
-        $this->criteria->filterBy('foo:"bar baz"');
+        $this->criteria->filterBy('foo::"bar baz"');
 
         $this->assertTrue($this->criteria->hasFilter('foo', 'bar baz'));
     }
@@ -186,24 +186,24 @@ public function testCanCheckIfCriteriaHasFilters()
     {
         $this->assertFalse($this->criteria->hasFilter());
 
-        $this->criteria->filterBy('foo:bar');
+        $this->criteria->filterBy('foo::bar');
 
         $this->assertTrue($this->criteria->hasFilter());
     }
     
     public function testCanGetAllFilters()
     {
-        $this->criteria->filterBy('foo:bar');
+        $this->criteria->filterBy('foo::bar');
 
         $this->assertTrue(is_array($this->criteria->getFilterBy()));
     }
 
     public function testCanGetAllFiltersAsString()
     {
-        $this->criteria->filterBy('foo:bar');
-        $this->criteria->filterBy('baz:"some thing"');
+        $this->criteria->filterBy('foo::bar');
+        $this->criteria->filterBy('baz::"some thing"');
 
-        $this->assertEquals('foo:bar baz:"some thing"', $this->criteria->getFilterString());
+        $this->assertEquals('foo::bar baz::"some thing"', $this->criteria->getFilterString());
     }
 
     public function testCanSortAscending()