fix: do not decorate ELLIPSIS with <b> tags

edxsearch/__init__.py

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 """ Container module for testing / demoing search """
 
-__version__ = '3.2.0'
+__version__ = '3.3.0'

search/result_processor.py

@@ -142,9 +142,9 @@ def excerpt(self):
             match_phrases,
             DESIRED_EXCERPT_LENGTH
         )
-        excerpt_text = ELLIPSIS.join(matches)
 
-        for match_word in match_phrases:
-            excerpt_text = SearchResultProcessor.decorate_matches(excerpt_text, match_word)
+        for i, _ in enumerate(matches):
+            for match_word in match_phrases:
+                matches[i] = SearchResultProcessor.decorate_matches(matches[i], match_word)
 
-        return excerpt_text
+        return ELLIPSIS.join(matches)

search/tests/test_search_result_processor.py

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 from django.test import TestCase
 from django.test.utils import override_settings
-from search.result_processor import SearchResultProcessor
+from search.result_processor import SearchResultProcessor, ELLIPSIS
 
 
 # Any class that inherits from TestCase will cause too-many-public-methods pylint error
@@ -250,6 +250,23 @@ def test_excerpt_quoted(self, search_phrase, expected_excerpt):
         srp = SearchResultProcessor(test_result, search_phrase)
         self.assertIn(expected_excerpt, srp.excerpt)
 
+    def test_excerpt_ellipsis_undecorated(self):
+        """
+        Multiple matches are joined with `ELLIPSIS` as a separator.
+        This verifies that the `ELLIPSIS` is not decorated with the HTML `<b>` tag when it matches the search phrase.
+
+        E.g. when `a` was in the search phrases before, it was resulting in text like `<sp<b>a</b>n`, which is not valid
+        HTML.
+        """
+        test_result = {
+            "content": {
+                "a": "Just a line of text.",
+                "b": "Just a line of different text.",
+            }
+        }
+        srp = SearchResultProcessor(test_result, 'Just a line')
+        self.assertIn(ELLIPSIS, srp.excerpt)
+
 
 class TestSearchResultProcessor(SearchResultProcessor):
     """

search/utils.py

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 """ Utility classes to support others """
 
 import importlib
-import collections
+from collections.abc import Iterable
 
 
 def _load_class(class_path, default):
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ def _load_class(class_path, default):
 
 def _is_iterable(item):
     """ Checks if an item is iterable (list, tuple, generator), but not string """
-    return isinstance(item, collections.Iterable) and not isinstance(item, str)
+    return isinstance(item, Iterable) and not isinstance(item, str)
 
 
 class ValueRange: