[JIRA] Resolved: (SDSJ-89) every keystroke in incremental search should elicit a response

[Rod Widdowson (JIRA)]

     [ https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/browse/SDSJ-89?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Rod Widdowson resolved SDSJ-89.
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       Resolution: Fixed
    Fix Version/s: 1.1.3

> every keystroke in incremental search should elicit a response
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>                 Key: SDSJ-89
>                 URL: https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/browse/SDSJ-89
>             Project: Shibboleth Discovery Service - Java
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 1.1.2
>            Reporter: Tom Scavo
>            Assignee: Rod Widdowson
>             Fix For: 1.1.3
>
>
> Refer to the following DS instance for the purposes of illustration:
> https://sh2testsp1.iay.org.uk/Shibboleth.sso/DS
> Symptoms: Type "b" into the search field. Nothing happens. Now append "r" to the search string so that "br" is entered into the search field. Again, nothing happens. Type a third character so that the string "bra" is entered into the search field. This time, a list of 12 IdPs is displayed. Delete the "a" character and append the character "b" so that "brb" is entered into the search field. No match.
> I naturally expect *every* keystroke to modify the UI in some way. I don't think this is an unreasonable expectation, but clearly the application doesn't work this way, so presumably there's some good reason for this.
> Some ideas:
> - Every input character should elicit a response, that is, every keystroke should modify the UI in some way
> - Let  N  be a configuration parameter where  N  is the maximum number of displayed IdPs
> - For a given search string, let  M  be the # of matches. If  M > N , display the first  N  matches and the string "P more matches..." at the bottom of the list, where  P = M - N
> - In lieu of the previous (advanced) behavior, display the string "too many matches" (although clearly this is less desirable)
> - For a given search string, if  M = 0 , display the string "no matches"
> - In the list of displayed IdPs, highlight the search characters (which I realize are not necessarily contiguous characters)

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