From 65358cf10d3cfdf13da8b2aac8f0e266a5854626 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mike12345567 <me@michaeldrury.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2021 14:31:06 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fixing an issue with lucene equality searching, strings
 weren't handled correctly.

---
 packages/server/src/api/controllers/row/internalSearch.js | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/server/src/api/controllers/row/internalSearch.js b/packages/server/src/api/controllers/row/internalSearch.js
index 7225ab633a..91cfdcbcb6 100644
--- a/packages/server/src/api/controllers/row/internalSearch.js
+++ b/packages/server/src/api/controllers/row/internalSearch.js
@@ -148,12 +148,16 @@ class QueryBuilder {
     }
     if (this.query.equal) {
       build(this.query.equal, (key, value) => {
-        return value ? `${key}:${luceneEscape(value.toLowerCase())}` : null
+        const escapedValue = luceneEscape(value.toLowerCase())
+        // have to do the or to manage straight values, or strings
+        return value ? `(${key}:${escapedValue} OR ${key}:"${escapedValue}")` : null
       })
     }
     if (this.query.notEqual) {
       build(this.query.notEqual, (key, value) => {
-        return value ? `!${key}:${luceneEscape(value.toLowerCase())}` : null
+        const escapedValue = luceneEscape(value.toLowerCase())
+        // have to do the or to manage straight values, or strings
+        return value ? `(!${key}:${escapedValue} OR !${key}:"${escapedValue}")` : null
       })
     }
     if (this.query.empty) {