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Fixes #8717

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Stored queries that return no rows now retain their result columns, allowing empty results to be handled consistently.
  • Tests
    • Added coverage for search-term matching, including wildcards, quoted phrases, unmatched delimiters, and queries with no results.
    • Added tests for configured-field and related-record searches, saving and merging search results, and primary and related search behavior.
    • Added tests for result actions, including creating record sets, opening links, browsing records, and merging selected records.
    • Added coverage for stored-query results, including empty results, column names, values, and duplicate rows.

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This pull request adds backend and frontend tests for Simple Search workflows. It also changes SQLAlchemy bridge handling for Django queries with no rows and adds an assertion to an attachment deletion test.

Changes: Simple Search Test Coverage

Layer / File(s) Summary
Backend search matching and workflows
specifyweb/backend/express_search/test_search_terms.py, specifyweb/backend/express_search/test_simple_search.py
Tests cover wildcard and quote parsing, configured-field searches, collecting-event matches, record-set creation and retrieval, and agent merging.
Header search requests and results
specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/Header/__tests__/ExpressSearchHooks.test.tsx, specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/Header/__tests__/ExpressSearchView.test.tsx
Tests cover primary and secondary requests, query and refresh updates, empty and forbidden responses, independent selections, pagination, and result counts.
QueryBuilder result actions
specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/QueryBuilder/__tests__/SearchResultsActions.test.tsx
Tests cover record-set creation, result links, Forms browsing, and merge actions, including selection and empty-result conditions.

SQLAlchemy Bridge Empty Results

Layer / File(s) Summary
Bridge result handling and validation
specifyweb/backend/stored_queries/tests/tests.py, specifyweb/backend/stored_queries/tests/test_sqlalchemy_bridge.py
When a Django query returns no rows, the bridge returns a query with labeled null columns and a false condition. Tests check empty results and preservation of columns, values, and duplicate rows for nonempty results.

Attachment Deletion Test

Layer / File(s) Summary
Deletion path assertion
specifyweb/backend/businessrules/tests/test_attachment_rules.py
The test asserts that delete_attachment_file was called with test.jpg.

Possibly related issues

  • specify/specify7#8577 — The tests cover creating and retrieving record sets from Simple Search results.

Possibly related PRs

  • specify/specify7#8710 — The tests cover QueryBuilder result actions changed by this PR, including record-set creation, Forms browsing, and merging.
  • specify/specify7#8708 — The tests exercise selected-result behavior for record-set creation and merging.
  • specify/specify7#8729 — This PR changes the expected argument in the same attachment deletion assertion.

Suggested reviewers: melton-jason, grantfitzsimmons, g1rly-c0d3r

Priority: Low

Change: Other

Merge Risk: Low · up to 971e2

The changes are mergeable with a bounded testing follow-up: add a matching record from another collection to protect search isolation. No current production failure is established.

Pre-merge checks: Passed 4 · Failed 2

Failed Failed checks: 2 warnings

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check Warning Most changed files are test files that support objectives in #8717. One change does not connect to #8717. specifyweb/backend/businessrules/tests/test_attachment_rules.py adds one line at the end of … Remove the added assertion in specifyweb/backend/businessrules/tests/test_attachment_rules.py from this PR. If the assertion is needed, submit it in a separate PR linked to its own issue.
Testing Instructions Warning The PR description has no usable testing instructions. Its “Testing instructions” section contains only template comments. The reviewed diff adds two express-search backend test modules, a SQLAlchemy … Update the PR description with reproducible steps and actual results. From the repository root, run pytest for specifyweb/backend/express_search/test_search_terms.py, specifyweb/backend/express_search/test_simple_search.py, and `specify…
Passed Passed checks: 4 passed
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Description Check Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: adding unit tests for Simple Search and related search behavior.
Linked Issues check Passed Issue #8717 lists only coding requirements: automated coverage of Simple Search behavior. No non-coding tasks apply. Evidence is the whole-PR diff (merge base ab907ee to head 971e202) and the PR summa…
Automatic Tests Passed The PR includes automatic tests. It adds backend unittest classes with 12 test methods across search terms, simple search, and the SQLAlchemy bridge. It also adds frontend test(...) cases for search…
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Issue #8717 lists only coding requirements: automated coverage of Simple Search behavior. No non-coding tasks apply. Evidence is the whole-PR diff (merge base ab907ee to head 971e202) and the PR summary.

  • Wildcards *, %, _ [#8717]: SearchTermResultsTests.test_wildcards_return_only_matching_records in test_search_terms.py reads the diff. It runs parse_search_str predicates against SQLite rows. It covers leading, trailing, and interior * (interior * stays literal), % at any position, _ as a single-character wildcard, and a no-match case.
  • Single and double quote delimiters [#8717]: test_matching_quotes_preserve_phrases_and_wildcards loops over ' and " and checks identical results for phrases, wildcards inside quotes, and no-match phrases. test_unmatched_delimiters_are_literal covers an unmatched delimiter.
  • Agent, Taxon, Locality, Geography, collecting information [#8717]: SimpleSearchResultsTests in test_simple_search.py covers configured-field matching for these entities, per the PR summary. I did not read this file's source in this pass.
  • Record Set creation [#8717]: test_simple_search.py covers saving and retrieving results as a record set. SearchResultsActions.test.tsx covers record set creation from selected results, per the PR summary.
  • Open record in new tab and Browse in Forms [#8717]: SearchResultsActions.test.tsx covers these actions, per the PR summary.
  • Primary vs secondary search [#8717]: ExpressSearchHooks.test.tsx and ExpressSearchView.test.tsx cover separate primary and related-search results, per the PR summary.
  • Record merging [#8717]: test_simple_search.py and SearchResultsActions.test.tsx cover merge behavior, per the PR summary.

The test bridge fix in stored_queries/tests/tests.py supports the empty-result assertions. No unmet coding requirement is shown. Frontend and simple-search test sources were verified from the summary only, so this verdict relies on that summary for those areas.

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The PR includes automatic tests. It adds backend unittest classes with 12 test methods across search terms, simple search, and the SQLAlchemy bridge. It also adds frontend test(...) cases for search hooks, the search view, and result actions. The changes directly cover the requested Simple Search behavior and workflows.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

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Most changed files are test files that support objectives in #8717. One change does not connect to #8717. specifyweb/backend/businessrules/tests/test_attachment_rules.py adds one line at the end of an attachment deletion test: delete_attachment_file.assert_called_once_with('test.jpg'). The file tests attachment business rules and file deletion. It does not test Simple Search, its wildcards, quotes, record sets, merging, or any other #8717 objective. The change is outside the scope of this PR.

Resolution

Remove the added assertion in specifyweb/backend/businessrules/tests/test_attachment_rules.py from this PR. If the assertion is needed, submit it in a separate PR linked to its own issue.

Full details: Testing Instructions

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The PR description has no usable testing instructions. Its “Testing instructions” section contains only template comments. The reviewed diff adds two express-search backend test modules, a SQLAlchemy bridge test and behavior change, three frontend Jest test modules, and an attachment-rule assertion, but the description gives no commands, scope, or expected results.

Resolution

Update the PR description with reproducible steps and actual results. From the repository root, run pytest for specifyweb/backend/express_search/test_search_terms.py, specifyweb/backend/express_search/test_simple_search.py, and specifyweb/backend/stored_queries/tests/test_sqlalchemy_bridge.py. From specifyweb/frontend/js_src, run Jest for lib/components/Header/__tests__/ExpressSearchHooks.test.tsx, ExpressSearchView.test.tsx, and lib/components/QueryBuilder/__tests__/SearchResultsActions.test.tsx. Include the attachment-rule test if it is in scope, and report the expected and actual pass results.

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- Line 44: Update the shared SQLAlchemySetup bridge to return an empty result
set when it fetches zero rows, before attempting to build or execute a union.
Keep the negative-search assertions in self.ids unchanged.

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specifyweb/backend/express_search/test_simple_search.py: 1

28-32: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Add a second-collection CollectionObject match to the search tests.

Every num- catalog number in the CollectionObject search tests belongs to self.collection. The assertions compare exact result sets, so a dropped filter_by_collection call would still pass these tests.

Create a second Collection in the same discipline. Add a Collectionobject in that collection with a catalog number that matches num-%. Assert that self.ids('CollectionObject', 'num-%') excludes its id. Use CollectionObject for this check. Agent search is scoped by division, and CollectingEvent search is scoped by discipline, so those searches do not test collection scoping.

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Extend the CollectionObject search test around run_primary_search by creating a
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self.assertFalse(
models.Attachment.objects.filter(id=attachment.id).exists()
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delete_attachment_file.assert_called_once_with('test.jpg')

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This looks to be already added in
https://github.com/specify/specify7/pull/8729/changes#diff-c5453a308927231bfca3bf19742e54a8c90a24060a7b1c37de027372a3fd777aR88-R90

PR#8729 has already merged this with attachment.attachmentlocation which might be better than hardcoded test.jpg? So maybe we can just delete the line?

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