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

apv apv at sedition.com
Fri Oct 13 20:42:20 CEST 2006


Oh... wait, I think I was looking at the wrong piece of code.

D'oh. Sorry!

-Ashley

On Friday, Oct 13, 2006, at 11:37 US/Pacific, apv wrote:

> 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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