Riot Desktop 0.12.2 (macOS) Searching in This Room/All Rooms yields no results

[MacLemon]

Description

Riot Desktop 0.12.2 (macOS) Searching in This Room/All Rooms yields no results

Steps to reproduce

• Enter any room
• Look for a string that's definitely been said in that room, or just say “testing foo” in that room.
• Now we know a string that should be found.
• Go to the search item by clicking on the loupe icon of the room
• in the search field enter “testing foo” (sand the quotes, as usually)
• klick either “This Room” or “All Rooms” to define the search scope
• wait for the results to be displayed

Describe how what happens differs from what you expected.
Nothing is ever found, or at least nothing is displayed. Even strings/words that definitely must be there, like “testing foo” are not found.

Version information

For the desktop app:

• OS: macOS 10.12.6 (Sierra)

• Version: 0.12.2

• OS: iOS 10.3.3

• Version: 0.53 #master 86; Olm 2.2.2

• Server: synapse 0.22.1 matrix.org or other federated homeservers on the same version.

Regression

This did indeed work with former versions of Riot Desktop and iOS and seems to be a regression in 0.12.x./0.5.3.
Related Bug for Riot/iOS #1499

[t3chguy]

Could it possibly be #4950 or #2548

[lampholder]

I tried this with 0.12.3 on OSX 10.12.6. I sent the message:
banana test

into a room, and the searched for the string
banana test

I tried it a few times; the first time I got a 504 & the search result was returned; subsequent times I just got the search result.

It was unreasonably slow, but it did work.

@MacLemon - can you confirm:

• was the room encrypted (Client-side search for E2E #2548)?
• was the search string made up of uncommon words (Synapse cuts out some words from search leading to confusion #4950)?

Thanks!

[MacLemon]

was the room encrypted (#2548)?
Yes, pretty much all the rooms I use are encrypted, which is one of the main reasons of using Matrix. (Encrypted group chats)

was the search string made up of uncommon words (#4950)?
Yes, absolutely.

Conclusion: The bug affecting me is #2548. It would help if the user would be informed about this, or even remove the search items from the toolsbar since they don't work at all in E2E chats.
Obviously better, let the client search in the local copy of the chat history and make users happy. :-)

[lampholder]

100% agreed - this is under discussion here: #4982