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Fixes #8717

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• Bug Fixes
  • Stored queries that return no rows now retain their result columns while correctly returning an empty result.
• Tests
  • Expanded coverage for search matching, including wildcards, quoted phrases, and unmatched delimiters.
  • Added checks for primary and related search results, result actions, and handling of empty query results.

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Walkthrough

The pull request adds backend and frontend tests for Simple Search and QueryBuilder result actions. It also changes the SQLAlchemy bridge to return an empty query with preserved column labels when a Django query returns no rows.

Changes: Simple Search Test Coverage

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Backend search matching and workflows specifyweb/backend/express_search/test_search_terms.py, specifyweb/backend/express_search/test_simple_search.py	Tests cover wildcard and quoted search terms, configured search fields, collecting-event searches, record-set operations, and agent merging.
Header search requests and results specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/Header/__tests__/ExpressSearchHooks.test.tsx, specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/Header/__tests__/ExpressSearchView.test.tsx	Tests cover primary and secondary search requests, query and refresh updates, empty and forbidden responses, result selection, pagination, counts, and related-page parameters.
QueryBuilder result actions specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/QueryBuilder/__tests__/SearchResultsActions.test.tsx	Tests cover record-set creation, result links, Forms browsing, and merge actions, including selected-result behavior.

SQLAlchemy Bridge Empty Results

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Bridge result handling and validation specifyweb/backend/stored_queries/tests/tests.py, specifyweb/backend/stored_queries/tests/test_sqlalchemy_bridge.py	When Django returns no rows, the bridge returns an always-empty query with a NULL-labeled column for each result column. Tests check empty results and preservation of columns, values, and duplicate rows for nonempty results.

Possibly related issues

• specify/specify7#8577 — The tests cover creating and retrieving record sets from Simple Search results.

Possibly related PRs

• specify/specify7#8710 — This PR tests QueryBuilder actions that PR #8710 adds or changes.
• specify/specify7#8708 — This PR tests actions that consume selected results, which PR #8708 changes.
• specify/specify7#8521 — This PR tests Browse in Forms behavior for selected, unselected, and empty results.

Suggested reviewers: melton-jason, grantfitzsimmons, g1rly-c0d3r

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: Minimal · previous review 942cc

No actionable merge-blocking issue is established in the supplied scope. Merge after normal checks pass.

Pre-merge checks: 5 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Testing Instructions		The PR description still has no usable testing instructions. Its Testing instructions section contains only template comments. The diff adds three backend test modules, changes the SQLAlchemy bridge b…	Update the PR description with reproducible steps and actual results. From the repository root, run pytest for specifyweb/backend/express_search/test_search_terms.py, specifyweb/backend/express_search/test_simple_search.py, and `specify…

Passed checks: 5 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title clearly describes the primary change: adding unit tests for Simple Search. It is concise and directly related to the changeset.
Linked Issues check		Issue #8717 asks for automated tests only. No non-coding requirement applies to the coding assessment. Evidence is the whole-PR summary, checked against the diff from merge base 88cc20c to head 942ccf…
Out of Scope Changes check		The previous FAIL came from one added assertion in specifyweb/backend/businessrules/tests/test_attachment_rules.py. The diff for that path between merge base 88cc20c and head 942ccf9 is empty. The c…
Automatic Tests		The PR adds automatic tests across backend and frontend. The changed files include unittest/TestCase classes with assertions for search terms, Simple Search workflows, and the SQLAlchemy bridge, plus …

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Explanation

Issue #8717 asks for automated tests only. No non-coding requirement applies to the coding assessment. Evidence is the whole-PR summary, checked against the diff from merge base 88cc20c to head 942ccf9 for two files.

• Wildcards *, %, _ [#8717]: SearchTermResultsTests in test_search_terms.py covers leading, trailing, and interior *, % at any position, _ as a single-character wildcard, and a no-match case. This matches the issue note that * applies only at the start or end. Verified from the prior review and the summary, not re-read in this pass.
• Single and double quote delimiters [#8717]: test_matching_quotes_preserve_phrases_and_wildcards runs the same cases for ' and " and expects identical results. test_unmatched_delimiters_are_literal covers unmatched delimiters. Verified from the prior review and the summary.
• Agent, Taxon, Locality, Geography, collecting information [#8717]: SimpleSearchResultsTests in test_simple_search.py has tests for Agent (test_agent_uses_configured_last_name_not_displayed_first_name), Taxon (test_taxon_full_name_exact_and_partial), Locality and Geography (test_locality_and_geography_use_separate_configured_fields), and collecting event station and date (test_collecting_event_station_and_date). Verified in the diff.
• Record Set creation [#8717]: test_search_results_can_be_saved_and_retrieved_as_record_set saves and retrieves search results as a record set. SearchResultsActions.test.tsx checks record set creation in result order with unique IDs. Verified in the diff.
• Open record in new tab and Browse in Forms [#8717]: SearchResultsActions.test.tsx checks target=_blank result links without row selection, and Browse in Forms for selected and all results. It also checks that the button is disabled for empty results. Verified in the diff.
• Primary vs secondary search [#8717]: ExpressSearchHooks.test.tsx and ExpressSearchView.test.tsx cover separate primary and related-search results. Evidence is the summary only; these files were not re-read in this pass.
• Record merging [#8717]: test_merge_search_matches_preserves_unrelated_agent_and_collector merges matched agents through the backend. SearchResultsActions.test.tsx checks that the merge action targets only selected records and requires at least two. Verified in the diff.

No unmet coding requirement is shown. Two areas (wildcard and quote tests, and primary vs secondary frontend tests) rely on the prior review and summary, so this verdict depends on that evidence.

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Explanation

The previous FAIL came from one added assertion in specifyweb/backend/businessrules/tests/test_attachment_rules.py. The diff for that path between merge base 88cc20c and head 942ccf9 is empty. The change is no longer in this PR, so the earlier finding is resolved.

The remaining changes support #8717:

• test_search_terms.py, test_simple_search.py, ExpressSearchHooks.test.tsx, ExpressSearchView.test.tsx, and SearchResultsActions.test.tsx are test files for Simple Search objectives.
• stored_queries/tests/test_sqlalchemy_bridge.py tests the SQLAlchemy bridge. test_simple_search.py uses this bridge through SQLAlchemySetup.
• stored_queries/tests/tests.py changes the test bridge so that zero-row results return a query with NULL column labels and false(). This change supports the empty-result assertions in the search tests.

No change was found that is unrelated to #8717.

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Explanation

The PR adds automatic tests across backend and frontend. The changed files include unittest/TestCase classes with assertions for search terms, Simple Search workflows, and the SQLAlchemy bridge, plus Jest tests for search hooks, views, record sets, form browsing, and merging.

Full details: Testing Instructions

Explanation

The PR description still has no usable testing instructions. Its Testing instructions section contains only template comments. The diff adds three backend test modules, changes the SQLAlchemy bridge behavior, and adds three frontend Jest test modules, but the description gives no commands, scope, or expected results.

Resolution

Update the PR description with reproducible steps and actual results. From the repository root, run pytest for specifyweb/backend/express_search/test_search_terms.py, specifyweb/backend/express_search/test_simple_search.py, and specifyweb/backend/stored_queries/tests/test_sqlalchemy_bridge.py. From specifyweb/frontend/js_src, run Jest for lib/components/Header/__tests__/ExpressSearchHooks.test.tsx, ExpressSearchView.test.tsx, and lib/components/QueryBuilder/__tests__/SearchResultsActions.test.tsx. Report the expected and actual pass results.

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Add a second-collection CollectionObject match to the search tests.

Every num- catalog number in the CollectionObject search tests belongs to self.collection. The assertions compare exact result sets, so a dropped filter_by_collection call would still pass these tests.

Create a second Collection in the same discipline. Add a Collectionobject in that collection with a catalog number that matches num-%. Assert that self.ids('CollectionObject', 'num-%') excludes its id. Use CollectionObject for this check. Agent search is scoped by division, and CollectingEvent search is scoped by discipline, so those searches do not test collection scoping.

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