Using Github Search Api does not work with complex search string

[domjansen]

When i try to search against the Github api using the github example i get an 422 error.

In go code this looks like:

opt := &github.SearchOptions{Sort: "updated"}
client.Search.Code("addClass+in:file+language:js+repo:jquery/jquery", opt)

The error looks like:

error: GET https://api.github.com/search/code?q=addClass%2Bin%3Afile%2Blanguage%3Ajs%2Brepo%3Ajquery%2Fjquery&sort=updated: 422 Validation Failed [{Resource:Search Field:q Code:invalid}]

The Problem is that go encodes the query string and not only the params.
The Github Api isn't able to deal with such queries.

Go generated url:

$ curl https://api.github.com/search/code?q=addClass%2Bin%3Afile%2Blanguage%3Ajs%2Brepo%3Ajquery%2Fjquery&sort=updated

=> does not work

Same curl without encoding:

$ curl https://api.github.com/search/code?addClass+in:file+language:js+repo:jquery/jquery&sort=updated

=> works

We will prepare a pullrequest for this issue.

[willnorris]

rather than separating search operators by literal + characters, try spaces:

opt := &github.SearchOptions{Sort: "updated"}
client.Search.Code("addClass in:file language:js repo:jquery/jquery", opt)

I think that should work. If so, then the problem is really one of documenting that better.

[rgbkrk]

I've been making very complex search queries with space separators. It's definitely a documentation thing.

[domjansen]

Great, thank you :)