[Server] Fix FTS search

scnserver/api/handler/apiMessage.go

@@ -119,11 +119,17 @@ func (h APIHandler) ListMessages(pctx ginext.PreContext) ginext.HTTPResponse {
 		}
 
 		if len(q.Search) != 0 {
-			filter.SearchStringFTS = langext.Ptr(langext.ArrMap(q.Search, func(v string) string { return strings.TrimSpace(v) }))
+			searchTerms := langext.ArrFilter(langext.ArrMap(q.Search, func(v string) string { return strings.TrimSpace(v) }), func(v string) bool { return v != "" })
+			if len(searchTerms) != 0 {
+				filter.SearchStringFTS = langext.Ptr(searchTerms)
+			}
 		}
 
 		if len(q.StringSearch) != 0 {
-			filter.SearchStringPlain = langext.Ptr(langext.ArrMap(q.StringSearch, func(v string) string { return strings.TrimSpace(v) }))
+			searchTerms := langext.ArrFilter(langext.ArrMap(q.StringSearch, func(v string) string { return strings.TrimSpace(v) }), func(v string) bool { return v != "" })
+			if len(searchTerms) != 0 {
+				filter.SearchStringPlain = langext.Ptr(searchTerms)
+			}
 		}
 
 		if len(q.Channels) != 0 {

scnserver/models/messagefilter.go

@@ -4,13 +4,15 @@ import (
 	"crypto/sha512"
 	"encoding/hex"
 	"fmt"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+	"unicode"
+
 	"git.blackforestbytes.com/BlackForestBytes/goext/dataext"
 	"git.blackforestbytes.com/BlackForestBytes/goext/langext"
 	"git.blackforestbytes.com/BlackForestBytes/goext/mathext"
 	"git.blackforestbytes.com/BlackForestBytes/goext/sq"
-	"strconv"
-	"strings"
-	"time"
 )
 
 type MessageFilter struct {
@@ -219,7 +221,7 @@ func (f MessageFilter) SQL() (string, string, sq.PP, error) {
 	if f.SearchStringFTS != nil {
 		filter := make([]string, 0)
 		for _, v := range *f.SearchStringFTS {
-			filter = append(filter, fmt.Sprintf("(messages_fts match :%s)", params.Add(v)))
+			filter = append(filter, fmt.Sprintf("(messages_fts match :%s)", params.Add(sanitizeFTSMatchQuery(v))))
 		}
 		sqlClauses = append(sqlClauses, "("+strings.Join(filter, " OR ")+")")
 	}
@@ -246,6 +248,43 @@ func (f MessageFilter) SQL() (string, string, sq.PP, error) {
 	return sqlClause, joinClause, params, nil
 }
 
+// sanitizeFTSMatchQuery converts an arbitrary user-provided search string into a valid FTS5 MATCH query.
+// It preserves explicit "quoted phrases" typed by the user and wraps every other whitespace-separated word
+// in double-quotes, so that FTS5 special characters ( - : * ^ ( ) AND OR NOT NEAR ... ) inside plain search
+// terms are treated as literal text instead of query operators.
+func sanitizeFTSMatchQuery(s string) string {
+	out := make([]string, 0)
+	buf := strings.Builder{}
+	inQuote := false
+
+	flush := func() {
+		if buf.Len() > 0 {
+			out = append(out, `"`+strings.ReplaceAll(buf.String(), `"`, `""`)+`"`)
+			buf.Reset()
+		}
+	}
+
+	for _, r := range s {
+		switch {
+		case r == '"':
+			// a double-quote opens or closes an explicit phrase; flush the pending word either way
+			flush()
+			inQuote = !inQuote
+		case !inQuote && unicode.IsSpace(r):
+			flush()
+		default:
+			buf.WriteRune(r)
+		}
+	}
+	flush() // trailing word or an unterminated phrase
+
+	if len(out) == 0 {
+		return `""` // valid FTS5 query that simply matches nothing
+	}
+
+	return strings.Join(out, " ")
+}
+
 func (f MessageFilter) Hash() string {
 	bh, err := dataext.StructHash(f, dataext.StructHashOptions{HashAlgo: sha512.New()})
 	if err != nil {

scnserver/test/message_test.go

@@ -830,6 +830,11 @@ func TestListMessagesSearch(t *testing.T) {
 		{"search=the(2)", 17, fmt.Sprintf("/api/v2/messages?search=%s", url.QueryEscape("THE"))},
 		{"search=please", 9, fmt.Sprintf("/api/v2/messages?search=%s", url.QueryEscape("please"))},
 		{"search=11pm", 2, fmt.Sprintf("/api/v2/messages?search=%s", url.QueryEscape("\"11:00pm\""))},
+
+		{"search=hyphen", 0, fmt.Sprintf("/api/v2/messages?search=%s", url.QueryEscape("yt-backup"))},
+		{"search=colon", 0, fmt.Sprintf("/api/v2/messages?search=%s", url.QueryEscape("foo:bar"))},
+		{"search=NOT", 0, fmt.Sprintf("/api/v2/messages?search=%s", url.QueryEscape("NOT"))},
+		{"search=empty", 22, fmt.Sprintf("/api/v2/messages?search=%s", url.QueryEscape(""))},
 	}
 
 	for _, testdata := range filterTests {