[Dbix-class] Proper way to escape underscores in DBIC (DBI 101, sorry)

[apv]

The behavior happens on ->search(); on mysql anyway.

On Friday, Oct 13, 2006, at 11:15 US/Pacific, Matt S Trout wrote:

>
> On 13 Oct 2006, at 13:36, Ash Berlin wrote:
>
>> Jules Bean wrote:
>>> apv wrote:
>>>
>>>> I want/need to escape underscores so that simple searches can't be
>>>> "hacked" by users, accidentally or intentionally. The DBI doc shows
>>>> this as the way to do it:
>>>>
>>>>    $esc = $dbh->get_info( 14 );  # SQL_SEARCH_PATTERN_ESCAPE
>>>>    $search_pattern =~ s/([_%])/$esc$1/g;
>>>>
>>>> Where/how should I do it in (a Catalyst app that's doing)
>>>> searches with
>>>> DBIC? I'm interested in overriding it for *all* user facing searches
>>>> since users should only be allowed to supply literal chars.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Don't use LIKE?
>>>
>>> _% are only special in the context of a LIKE query.
>>>
>>> Jules
>> c.f 'search' and 'search_like'
>>
>
> search_like considered harmful.
>
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