The +filebug dupe finder doesn't cope well with long or complex bug titles

Bug #405327 reported by Katsudon
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Triaged
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

It is impossible to create a bug report in launchpad which in the subject would contain the following string of characters:

/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.06/bin/javaws

Anytime I try to do it (website: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug), I get the following page:

<<<<
Our edge server has a lower timeout threshold than launchpad.net, so we can catch those before they hit a wider audience. As a member of the Launchpad Beta Testers team, you're more likely to experience them. If this is blocking your work, you can disable redirection.

Disable redirection for 2 hours

Sorry, something just went wrong in Launchpad.

We’ve recorded what happened, and we’ll fix it as soon as possible. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Trying again in a couple of minutes might work.

(Error ID: OOPS-1304E1446)
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This problem was encountered while trying to create Bug 405335. The workaround is not to write this magic word into the description of the bug, and correct this on the next screen.

Katsudon (katsudon)
description: updated
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Ursula Junque (ursinha) wrote :

It seems dupefinder is not enjoying the title/description. I tried to file a bug with summary "/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.06/bin/javaws" and I'm getting consistently timeout oopses like OOPS-1306EC374.

affects: launchpad → malone
tags: added: timeout
tags: added: dupefinder
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Graham Binns (gmb) wrote :

This is because the similar-bugs lookup does a full text search for whatever you type in. The more words you type, the longer the search is going to take, since it's trying to find any of the words in all bugs filed on a project. It treats characters like '/' and '-' as word boundaries, so the string "/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.06/bin/javaws" is actually 12 words long as far as it's concerned.

That the query is inefficient is definitely a problem. One way to work around it is to make the list of possible duplicates load asynchronously, which we're currently working on.

Changed in malone:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
summary: - It is impossible to create a bug with a certain description
+ The +filebug dupe finder doesn't cope well with long or complex bug
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