Implement advanced search #1797

droidmonkey · 2018-03-31T03:07:22Z

Description

Fully implements advanced searching and other search related features/issues. Eliminates the searching of group names and notes. End search after selecting a folder if global search is active (Fixes #1501). Also took the opportunity to clean up the ugly/messy entry view and model code surrounding searching.

Fixes #239 using the following syntax:

[modifiers][field:]["]term["]

Where modifiers can be any combo of:

- exclude this term from results
+ match this term exactly
* term is handled as a regex

Where field can be one of:

title
user[name]
pass[word]
url
notes
attr[ibute]
attach[ment]

If field is omitted or non-existent the default is to search title, username, url, and notes.

Where term can contain wildcard terms (if NOT regex) of:

* match anything (or nothing)
? match any one character
| logical OR

Sample search queries:

user:jon url:google Search username for jon and url for google
user:jon|hifi Search username for jon OR hifi
+user:jon -url:google *notes:"secret note \d" Search username exactly jon, url cannot contain google, and notes contains secret note [digit]

Motivation and context

Long requested feature

How has this been tested?

Manually and with new search term parser tests.

Types of changes

✅ New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)

Checklist:

✅ I have read the CONTRIBUTING document. [REQUIRED]
✅ My code follows the code style of this project. [REQUIRED]
✅ All new and existing tests passed. [REQUIRED]
✅ I have compiled and verified my code with -DWITH_ASAN=ON. [REQUIRED]
✅ My change requires a change to the documentation and I have updated it accordingly.
✅ I have added tests to cover my changes.

TheZ3ro · 2018-03-31T11:04:57Z

src/core/EntrySearcher.cpp

+        }
+
+        // Short circuit if we failed to match or we matched and are excluding this term
+        if (!found || term->exclude) {
            return false;


Shouldn't this be a continue instead? It is into a for and returning here will skip all next term in the for if the current is excluded

It is a short circuit because this function only returns true if all the terms match this particular entry (implicit AND of terms).

ok make sense

yan12125 · 2018-03-31T19:12:44Z

* term is handled as a regex

I like this idea ;-) Looking forward to reusing this for #1769

droidmonkey · 2018-03-31T19:58:07Z

Right, forgot about that, lemme extract the wildcard scrub and regex builder into the tools class

insideClaw · 2018-05-07T15:59:00Z

Sounds like exactly what was a deal-maker for me to start using KeePassXC, that it doesn't currently match a lot of sites despite similarities in the name and URL. +1

phoerious

Looks good. One or two nitpicks. And some of the methods could use doc blocks.

src/core/EntrySearcher.cpp

src/core/EntrySearcher.h

src/core/Tools.cpp

Changes made and committed

phoerious

What's the state of this?

droidmonkey · 2018-10-21T03:00:35Z

Going to make a couple additions and then it will be ready

intika · 2018-10-31T11:05:42Z

@droidmonkey Great work this is very useful tested it and it seem to work as expected...
Just one thing, the search syntax is not intuitive you should add a hint in the search box... instead of "Search..." something like "Search... (+pass:keyword)" or "Search... (+user:keyword)"... easy modification...
or a drop-down list but this would be for a future PR i guess

droidmonkey · 2018-11-02T01:30:23Z

I made a pretty awesome search help pop-up. Any feedback?

intika · 2018-11-02T03:16:25Z

Amazing indeed... that will be useful to remember the syntax

phoerious · 2018-11-02T06:34:31Z

Despicable. 😉
No, great pop-up, but I would prefer if it had the QLineEdit background. And I would replace the part in brackets after the description with only "(logical AND)". Making a verb of "and" sounds rather clunky to me.

phoerious · 2018-11-02T06:37:09Z

Oh, and could you perhaps make a generic help pop-up widget of it? We could use that in other parts as well.

phoerious

Two minor nitpicks, rest looks great.

src/gui/widgets/PopupHelpWidget.cpp

src/gui/widgets/PopupHelpWidget.h

* Remove searching of group title and notes * End search when selecting a new group * Correct entry searcher tests to align with new code

* Support quoted strings & per-field searching * Support regex and exact matching * Simplify search sequence * Make search widget larger * Add regex converter to Tools namespace

* Search clears if the search box does not have focus for 5 minutes (fixes #2178) * Goto group from search results after double clicking the group name (fixes #2043)

* Support ! modifier (same as '-') * Create reusable PopupHelpWidget as self-contained popup that can be positioned around a parent widget and will follow the movement and sizing of the window * Eliminated KEEPASSXC_MAIN_WINDOW macro and replaced with getMainWindow() function * Add tests to cover search help show/hide

droidmonkey · 2018-11-17T14:13:28Z

Done, and fixed the wording on the help popup, made background white, and fixed the border. Also squashed commits.

- New Database Wizard [#1952] - Advanced Search [#1797] - Automatic update checker [#2648] - KeeShare database synchronization [#2109, #1992, #2738, #2742, #2746, #2739] - Improve favicon fetching; transition to Duck-Duck-Go [#2795, #2011, #2439] - Remove KeePassHttp support [#1752] - CLI: output info to stderr for easier scripting [#2558] - CLI: Add --quiet option [#2507] - CLI: Add create command [#2540] - CLI: Add recursive listing of entries [#2345] - CLI: Fix stdin/stdout encoding on Windows [#2425] - SSH Agent: Support OpenSSH for Windows [#1994] - macOS: TouchID Quick Unlock [#1851] - macOS: Multiple improvements; include CLI in DMG [#2165, #2331, #2583] - Linux: Prevent Klipper from storing secrets in clipboard [#1969] - Linux: Use polling based file watching for NFS [#2171] - Linux: Enable use of browser plugin in Snap build [#2802] - TOTP QR Code Generator [#1167] - High-DPI Scaling for 4k screens [#2404] - Make keyboard shortcuts more consistent [#2431] - Warn user if deleting referenced entries [#1744] - Allow toolbar to be hidden and repositioned [#1819, #2357] - Increase max allowed database timeout to 12 hours [#2173] - Password generator uses existing password length by default [#2318] - Improve alert message box button labels [#2376] - Show message when a database merge makes no changes [#2551] - Browser Integration Enhancements [#1497, #2253, #1904, #2232, #1850, #2218, #2391, #2396, #2542, #2622, #2637, #2790] - Overall Code Improvements [#2316, #2284, #2351, #2402, #2410, #2419, #2422, #2443, #2491, #2506, #2610, #2667, #2709, #2731]

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Search behaves unexpectedly when switching tabs #1631

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Improve search by selected group interface because right now it is not intuitive. #1949

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[FEATURE] Hide the search results after a click in the "page tree" #1999

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Reset search on folder change #2156

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Want ability to search only on one column (Title, mainly) #2187

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Clear Search bar after switching to a category in a left sidebar #2199

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[Feature] Clear search and show folder on navigating through group tree #2278

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Focus search on unlocking database #2279

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Search by Password #2397

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droidmonkey added 5 commits November 17, 2018 08:49

Streamlined searcher code

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* Remove searching of group title and notes * End search when selecting a new group * Correct entry searcher tests to align with new code

Clean up Entry Model/View code

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Add advanced search term parser

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* Support quoted strings & per-field searching * Support regex and exact matching * Simplify search sequence * Make search widget larger * Add regex converter to Tools namespace

Implement search auto-clear and goto group

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* Search clears if the search box does not have focus for 5 minutes (fixes #2178) * Goto group from search results after double clicking the group name (fixes #2043)

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Correct logic error in EntrySearcher and add more tests

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Search droidmonkey/keepassxc-docs#7

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Attributes not searched by default? #4696

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Missing documentation for advanced search syntax #6589

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