ninjutsu is:common returns nothing should return a few cards.

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Cliff

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Sep 3, 2009, 11:40:52 AM9/3/09
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Sorry if I'm missing something. I could be going about it all wrong
but "unblockable in:extended is:common is:creature ~*walk" worked
exactly as expected.

When trying to search with the term ninjutsu I get strange results.
The " 's are just to demonstrate my search term and I'm not using them
when using Cauldron.

"ninjutsu is:common" produces nothing
"ninjutsu is:uncommon" produces nothing
"ninjutsu is:rare" produces 1 card when there should be 2

Also, "ninjutsu is:creature" produces 1 card that has "creature" in
its text when it should return all ninjutsu cards - Is this
overloading the search somehow because when I search for just ninjutsu
it returns only type creatures (because that's the only type that gets
it).

I know the ninjutsu sample set is small and a contrived search, I dont
really need to be filtering it I was just trying it out and it lead to
questions.

Now that I'm done whining. WOW this is super amazing, thank you for
this resource. This is what the new gatherer should have been. I guess
you can't do cool things in .net ;)

Thanks!

Adam Blinkinsop

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Sep 3, 2009, 11:58:31 AM9/3/09
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On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Cliff<cliffdi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> When trying to search with the term ninjutsu I get strange results.
> The " 's are just to demonstrate my search term and I'm not using them
> when using Cauldron.
>
> "ninjutsu is:common" produces nothing
> "ninjutsu is:uncommon" produces nothing
> "ninjutsu is:rare" produces 1 card when there should be 2

No need for the "is" prefix. Just search for [ninjutsu common] and
you'll get what you're looking for! Cauldron searches for text in the
name, color, type, text, and rarity of a card, so you won't need
anything special to search those.

> Now that I'm done whining. WOW this is super amazing, thank you for
> this resource. This is what the new gatherer should have been. I guess
> you can't do cool things in .net ;)

Hey, thanks! I appreciate the comments above; I'm working on changes
to the query parser to make it much easier to search for things like
this. Most of the feedback I've gotten has been around the "key:..."
prefix requirements, and I think that they're generally unnecessary.
Expect an update by the end of the month.
--
Adam Blinkinsop <bli...@acm.org>

Cliff

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Sep 3, 2009, 4:54:12 PM9/3/09
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Thank you.

On Sep 3, 8:58 am, Adam Blinkinsop <hackerbli...@gmail.com> wrote:
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