Music search returns 0 results with illegal characters

[reallistic]

When xdm performs a search that contains illegal characters (.,/!') it does not pick these guys up. Seems as though the index sites do not allow these. For example, I dug through the log to find an api call on an indexer site searching for "The 20/20 Experience" and it returned 0 results. I took the exact url and plugged it directly into my browser and got the same result. I then took that url and removed the forward slash and it returned the expected results. The same occurred for "Magna Carta... Holy Grail."

[lad1337]

mmhh i hope the / was url encoded if not this is a bug.
but as you explained the the search returned results from teh indexer after removing the /
and i guess replacing it with a space
you could use the Replace plugin (its a SearchTermFilter and should be in the core, i think)

the setting could look like this:
Replace This:

&;:;é;';/;!

With This:

; ;e;; ; 

(Note: there is a space behind the last ;)
of course you must let it run for music and enable it

this created this in the logs for me

Final search term set for Album(de.lad1337.music)[7772] The 20/20 Experience is: [u'Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience', u'Justin Timberlake The 20 20 Experience']

maybe this helps.
please give it a try

[reallistic]

Sorry forgot to add that it was URL encoded. Also, I cannot remember what happened (or if I tried) when I used a space but the actual index sites had the 20/20 experience listed as 2020 experience.

I will try the replace plugin.

[lad1337]

so the indexer had a replace rule too ... replace / with nothing ... you will of course have to do that too

[reallistic]

This worked. I used:

&;:;é;';/;!;.

; ;e;;; ;

[lad1337]

okay cool :)
i'll update the default settings in the replace plugin to also replace / with nothing
so future users don't have to add that