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Change default tree search algorithm from 'contains' (LIKE '%x%') to 'startsWith' (LIKE 'x%'), enabling B-tree index usage on 200K+ row tree tables. Replace hardcoded limit of 1000 with paginated batch-on-scroll loading: - Initial fetch returns first 50 results (QUERY_COMBO_BOX_PAGE_SIZE) - Scrolling near the bottom of the dropdown fetches the next 50 - Loading indicator shown while fetching more results - Continues until all results are loaded Changes: - UserDefinitions.tsx: default treeSearchAlgorithm 'contains' -> 'startsWith' - QueryComboBox/index.tsx: paginated fetchSource with handleScrollEnd - AutoComplete.tsx: onScrollEnd, isLoadingMore, extraItems props - treeSearchEfficiency.test.tsx: verify default operator and page size
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- Open a form with a tree-based QueryComboBox (e.g., Taxon field on a Determination)
- Type a few characters and verify the typeahead dropdown populates quickly
- Verify that typing "rosa" matches "Rosaceae" and "Rosales" but not "Pterosaurus" (startsWith behavior)
- Check user preferences -- the tree search algorithm should now default to "starts with"
Switching the tree search algorithm to "contains" doesn't seem to work.
Current search behavior in main:
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- Open a form with a tree-based QueryComboBox (e.g., Taxon field on a Determination)
- Type a few characters and verify the typeahead dropdown populates quickly
- Verify that typing "rosa" matches "Rosaceae" and "Rosales" but not "Pterosaurus" (startsWith behavior)
- Check user preferences -- the tree search algorithm should now default to "starts with"
I am having the same issue as other reviewers. It seems that no matter the selection in User Preferences, the autofill search only returns searches in the form of "starts with - case insensitive."
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- Open a form with a tree-based QueryComboBox (e.g., Taxon field on a Determination)
- Type a few characters and verify the typeahead dropdown populates quickly
- Verify that typing "rosa" matches "Rosaceae" and "Rosales" but not "Pterosaurus" (startsWith behavior)
- Check user preferences -- the tree search algorithm should now default to "starts with"
The testing instructions pass but both case sensitivity and the contains options look to be broken.
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The changes to Attachments/__tests__/ChronoChart.test.tsx alter dialog assertions and remove a snapshot. They have no demonstrated connection to [#7752], tree search, QueryComboBox, pagination, se… |
Revert the unrelated ChronoChart.test.tsx changes, or provide a direct coding requirement that connects them to this pull request. |
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The testing instructions remain incomplete for the changed behavior. The diff adds 50-item pagination via QUERY_COMBO_BOX_PAGE_SIZE, appended results, automatic short-list loading, a loading row, an… |
Update the testing section to name and run specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/Molecules/__tests__/AutoComplete.test.tsx, specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/QueryComboBox/__tests__/debounce.test.tsx, and `specifyweb/fronten… |
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Check name Status Explanation Description Check Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled. Title check The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: improving tree search efficiency through updated search behavior and pagination. Linked Issues check Direct issue [ #7752] requires smaller result batches and pagination for large tree searches.QueryComboBoxnow usesQUERY_COMBO_BOX_PAGE_SIZEset to 50 and loads later pages on scroll. Tree search…Automatic Tests The pull request adds automatic tests for the changed behavior. AutoComplete.test.tsxcovers appended results, filtering, selection, and duplicate add options.debounce.test.tsxcovers 500 ms tree…Full details: Linked Issues check
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#7752] requires smaller result batches and pagination for large tree searches.QueryComboBoxnow usesQUERY_COMBO_BOX_PAGE_SIZEset to 50 and loads later pages on scroll. Tree searches use a 500 ms delay. The defaulttreeSearchAlgorithmisstartsWith, whilecontainsremains available. Tests cover page size, search operators, preferences, pagination, and debounce behavior. The issue's minimum-character and full-text-index alternatives are not mandatory requirements.
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The pull request adds automatic tests for the changed behavior.
AutoComplete.test.tsxcovers appended results, filtering, selection, and duplicate add options.debounce.test.tsxcovers 500 ms tree delays, 300 ms non-tree delays, timer resets, and unmount cancellation.treeSearchEfficiency.test.tsxcovers search operators and the 50-item page limit. Jest discovers these.test.tsxfiles through the configuredtestMatchpatterns.
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Attachments/__tests__/ChronoChart.test.tsxalter dialog assertions and remove a snapshot. They have no demonstrated connection to [#7752], tree search,QueryComboBox, pagination, search preferences, or debounce behavior. The remaining reviewed changes support [#7752] or its regression coverage.Resolution
Revert the unrelated
ChronoChart.test.tsxchanges, or provide a direct coding requirement that connects them to this pull request.
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The testing instructions remain incomplete for the changed behavior. The diff adds 50-item pagination via
QUERY_COMBO_BOX_PAGE_SIZE, appended results, automatic short-list loading, a loading row, and pagination termination inQueryComboBoxandAutoComplete. The instructions mention scrolling and retained results, but do not require checking the loading indicator or stopping when no more results exist. They do not name or instruct reviewers to runMolecules/__tests__/AutoComplete.test.tsx,QueryComboBox/__tests__/debounce.test.tsx, orQueryComboBox/__tests__/treeSearchEfficiency.test.tsx. The debounce section omits latest-input and unmount-cancellation checks. The default-preference check does not explicitly require resetting existing preferences. The description usesQUERY_COMBO_BOX_SEARCH_LIMIT, but the changed code defines and usesQUERY_COMBO_BOX_PAGE_SIZE.Resolution
Update the testing section to name and run
specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/Molecules/__tests__/AutoComplete.test.tsx,specifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/QueryComboBox/__tests__/debounce.test.tsx, andspecifyweb/frontend/js_src/lib/components/QueryComboBox/__tests__/treeSearchEfficiency.test.tsx. State that results load in 50-item pages controlled byQUERY_COMBO_BOX_PAGE_SIZE. Require a fresh or reset preference for the default-search check. Add checks for loading and appending a second page, the loading indicator, no duplicate or disappearing results while typing, and pagination stopping when no more results exist. Add 500 ms debounce checks for treeQueryComboBoxandTreeViewSearch, including latest-input behavior and cancellation after unmount. ReplaceQUERY_COMBO_BOX_SEARCH_LIMITwithQUERY_COMBO_BOX_PAGE_SIZE.
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153-157: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAssert the limit passed to
runQuery.The current test checks only
QUERY_COMBO_BOX_PAGE_SIZE. It passes ifrunPageuses a larger limit while the constant remains50. Assert the request options indebounce.test.tsx.Suggested test assertion
+import { QUERY_COMBO_BOX_PAGE_SIZE } from '../constants'; + ... expect(jest.mocked(runQuery).mock.calls[0][0].fields).toEqual( expect.arrayContaining([expect.objectContaining({ startValue: 'rosa' })]) ); + expect(runQuery).toHaveBeenCalledWith( + expect.anything(), + expect.objectContaining({ limit: QUERY_COMBO_BOX_PAGE_SIZE }) + );🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 513-528: Update AutoComplete’s list-rendering logic to trigger
onScrollEnd after initial or appended items render when the list does not
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- Around line 424-427: Guard first-page pagination state in the fetchSource flow
against stale requests: keep the newly created pagination state in a
request-local variable, and after await runPage(0) return early unless
paginationRef.current still references that state. Update offset and hasMore on
the local state rather than the shared ref, while preserving the existing
handleScrollEnd completion guard separately.
- Around line 433-451: Make scroll pagination generation-aware in
handleScrollEnd by using paginationRef.current.queries as the search-generation
token and adding an in-flight ownership ref. Set ownership before runPage,
capture the current queries and offset, block concurrent requests, and verify
ownership in both completion branches and the catch before updating state or
appending items. Reset the ownership ref and loading state when a new search
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🟡 Minor · Include appended items in the selected-item lookup. · AutoComplete.tsx:440-441
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winInclude appended items in the selected-item lookup.
QueryComboBox/index.tsxsupplies later pages throughextraItems, but this lookup searches onlyresultsRef. When a user selects an item from a later page,currentItemfalls back to a string. The input keeps its text, but the reopened option is not marked as selected. Look upcurrentValuein the combined results and update the effect when those results change.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Testing instructions
- Search modes**
- Open a form containing a Taxon QueryComboBox, such as the Taxon field on a Determination.
- Under Preferences → Form → Query Combo Box, verify that Search Algorithm (for relationships with tree tables) defaults to Starts With when no user or administrator override exists.
- With "Starts With" selected, verify that a prefix finds a known taxon, but a middle-of-name substring does not.
- Change the tree-specific preference to "Contains", save, and return to the form.
- Verify that searching, i.e 'noba' finds 'Cyanobacteria', if present in the selected tree.
- Verify that case-insensitive searches return the same matches regardless of capitalization.
- Pagination and selection
- Search for a term matching more than 50 records.
- Scroll to the bottom of the dropdown and verify that additional results appear without losing existing results.
- Continue scrolling and check for duplicate entries, unexpected jumps, or repeated loading.
- Change the search term and verify that results from the previous search are not appended to the new results.
- Clear the field and verify that it remains usable without stale selections.
- Typing and loading behavior
- Type quickly in the Taxon field. Suggestions should refresh after approximately half a second of inactivity, rather than after every keystroke.
- Continue typing before that pause ends; verify that the search waits until typing stops.
- Repeat the typing check in the tree editor search.
- Verify that a non-tree QueryComboBox, such as an Agent field, remains responsive and behaves as before.
- No-match and existing-value behavior
- Search for a nonexistent name and verify that the no-results/Add behavior is appropriate for the user’s permissions.
Everything passes for QCBX search algorithm. Starts With and Contains both show results as intended.
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- With "Starts With" selected, verify that a prefix finds a known taxon, but a middle-of-name substring does not.
- Verify that searching, i.e 'noba' finds 'Cyanobacteria', if present in the selected tree.
- Verify that case-insensitive searches return the same matches regardless of capitalization.
- Scroll to the bottom of the dropdown and verify that additional results appear without losing existing results.
- Change the search term and verify that results from the previous search are not appended to the new results.
- Clear the field and verify that it remains usable without stale selections.
- Type quickly in the Taxon field. Suggestions should refresh after approximately half a second of inactivity, rather than after every keystroke.
- Continue typing before that pause ends; verify that the search waits until typing stops.
- Repeat the typing check in the tree editor search.
- Verify that a non-tree QueryComboBox, such as an Agent field, remains responsive and behaves as before.
- Search for a nonexistent name and verify that the no-results/Add behavior is appropriate for the user’s permissions.
Changing the setting to "contains" would not allow me to search for the middle of words, even after logging out/back in and clearing my cache. Scrolling was also broken so that when I hovered over a result and tried to scroll down, it would auto-scroll back to the top of the results list.
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Testing Instructions
- Search modes
- Open a form containing a Taxon QueryComboBox, such as the Taxon field on a Determination.
- Under Preferences → Form → Query Combo Box, verify that Search Algorithm (for relationships with tree tables) defaults to Starts With when no user or administrator override exists.
- With "Starts With" selected, verify that a prefix finds a known taxon, but a middle-of-name substring does not.
- Change the tree-specific preference to "Contains", save, and return to the form.
- Verify that searching, i.e 'noba' finds 'Cyanobacteria', if present in the selected tree.
- Verify that case-insensitive searches return the same matches regardless of capitalization.
- Pagination and selection
- Search for a term matching more than 50 records.
- Scroll to the bottom of the dropdown and verify that additional results appear without losing existing results.
- Continue scrolling and check for duplicate entries, unexpected jumps, or repeated loading.
- Change the search term and verify that results from the previous search are not appended to the new results.
- Clear the field and verify that it remains usable without stale selections.
- Typing and loading behavior
- Type quickly in the Taxon field. Suggestions should refresh after approximately half a second of inactivity, rather than after every keystroke.
- Continue typing before that pause ends; verify that the search waits until typing stops.
- Repeat the typing check in the tree editor search.
- Verify that a non-tree QueryComboBox, such as an Agent field, remains responsive and behaves as before.
- No-match and existing-value behavior
- Search for a nonexistent name and verify that the no-results/Add behavior is appropriate for the user's permissions.
Everything works as intended: "Starts With" and "Contains" logic is correct and displays the correct output.
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Testing instructions
- With "Starts With" selected, verify that a prefix finds a known taxon, but a middle-of-name substring does not.
- Verify that searching, i.e 'noba' finds 'Cyanobacteria', if present in the selected tree.
- Verify that case-insensitive searches return the same matches regardless of capitalization.
- Scroll to the bottom of the dropdown and verify that additional results appear without losing existing results.
- Continue scrolling and check for duplicate entries, unexpected jumps, or repeated loading.
- Change the search term and verify that results from the previous search are not appended to the new results.
- Clear the field and verify that it remains usable without stale selections.
- Type quickly in the Taxon field. Suggestions should refresh after approximately half a second of inactivity, rather than after every keystroke.
- Continue typing before that pause ends; verify that the search waits until typing stops.
- Repeat the typing check in the tree editor search.
- Verify that a non-tree QueryComboBox, such as an Agent field, remains responsive and behaves as before.
- Search for a nonexistent name and verify that the no-results/Add behavior is appropriate for the user’s permissions.
re-tested on firefox and chrome and found that the startsWith/contains issue I had was not because I was changing the wrong user preference. I was not able to re-produce the scrolling issue on chrome, but I was able to on firefox.
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1. Search modes
- With "Starts With" selected, verify that a prefix finds a known taxon, but a middle-of-name substring does not.
- Change the tree-specific preference to "Contains", save, and return to the form.
- Verify that searching, i.e 'noba' finds 'Cyanobacteria', if present in the selected tree.
- Verify that case-insensitive searches return the same matches regardless of capitalization.
2. Pagination and selection
- Scroll to the bottom of the dropdown and verify that additional results appear without losing existing results.
- Change the search term and verify that results from the previous search are not appended to the new results.
- Clear the field and verify that it remains usable without stale selections.
3. Typing and loading behavior
- Type quickly in the Taxon field. Suggestions should refresh after approximately half a second of inactivity, rather than after every keystroke.
- Continue typing before that pause ends; verify that the search waits until typing stops.
- Repeat the typing check in the tree editor search.
- Verify that a non-tree QueryComboBox, such as an Agent field, remains responsive and behaves as before.
4. No-match and existing-value behavior
- Search for a nonexistent name and verify that the no-results/Add behavior is appropriate for the user’s permissions.
When testing if case insensitive results were the same regardless of case, I could not scroll past the first results available until I manually selected the scroll bar. I think this is the same error @g1rly-c0d3r ran into, but I'm not sure. This did not seem to be an issue again after switching it back to Starts With and back.
I'm not sure if it matters, but changing the Search Algorithm setting from Starts With to Contains does not change the Taxon QueryComboBox's behavior. I tested it more out of my own curiosity than anything, so I'm not sure if that is the expected response or not.
Overall, I believe this works as intended.
Fixes #7752
Contributed by @foozleface
Based on #7941 with fixes added.
Tree search in QueryComboBox sends a LIKE query per keystroke. On tree tables with 200K+ rows, using "contains" mode generates
LIKE '%pattern%'which cannot use B-tree indexes and causes full table scans. This PR changes the default search mode from "contains" to "startsWith", enablingLIKE 'pattern%'which uses B-tree indexes. It also reduces the search result limit from 1000 to 50, since a typeahead dropdown never needs that many results.Implementation
treeSearchAlgorithmuser preference fromcontainstostartsWithinUserDefinitions.tsxQUERY_COMBO_BOX_SEARCH_LIMITconstant set to 50 (was 1000)Notes:
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