Gerrit: how to stop links emanating from dashboard from stripping search operators?

[Kaz Kylheku]

Hi all,

A Gerrit dashboards has sections with custom search results. Each section has a heading which can be clicked to perform a stand-alone search which is related to that section.

Unfortunately, that search is an edited version of the section's search which sometimes occurs in infelicitous ways.

A good example is when the section has a limit, like limit:15 so only fifteen items are shown. In that situation, it is good that the section heading points to a full search without the limit. Great!

I'm running into a situation in which an un-negated age:3w operator is being stripped. the dashboard deliberately shows items that have not been updated in 3w or more, but when I click on the heading for that section, that age:3w is dropped, so the resulting search bears no semantic relation to the section.

Is there some way to override the behavior, like give a list of operators not to strip away? Or even just specify the exact URL for the section heading?

I am on 3.11.1-5-g0419775034 in the role of a non-administrative user.

The dashboards I'm talking about are not the project-defined ones, but the URL- generated ones using the /dashboard/?... URL API.

The documentation doesn't say a whole lot; I'm just wondering if there are any hidden trick.

Thanks.

[Nasser Grainawi]

Yeah, I can confirm this behavior and it looks like a "bug" affecting both types of dashboards. Seems to be something in the UI code doing it, since the backend response includes the `age` operator. Looks like it was hardcoded in the UI in change 242301: Remove age and limit restrictions from dashboard links | https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/gerrit/+/242301

@dhru...@google.com the change doesn't say why those operators are removed from dashboard links. Can you help explain that?

 

The documentation doesn't say a whole lot; I'm just wondering if there are any hidden trick.

Thanks.

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