Better heuristics for negative numbers

- Interpret "-N" as a positive term searching a negative number
rather than the other way around in more cases.

- Interpret "--N" as a negative term searching a negative number.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/container-search/src/test/java/com/yahoo/search/yql/UserInputTestCase.java b/container-search/src/test/java/com/yahoo/search/yql/UserInputTestCase.java
index b5c4166e4de..6173d710434 100644
--- a/container-search/src/test/java/com/yahoo/search/yql/UserInputTestCase.java
+++ b/container-search/src/test/java/com/yahoo/search/yql/UserInputTestCase.java
@@ -118,6 +118,17 @@ public class UserInputTestCase {
     }
 
     @Test
+    public void testNegativeNumberComparison() {
+        URIBuilder builder = searchUri();
+        builder.setParameter("myinput", "-5");
+        builder.setParameter("yql",
+                             "select * from ecitem where rank(([{\"defaultIndex\":\"myfield\"}](userInput(@myinput))));");
+        Query query = searchAndAssertNoErrors(builder);
+        assertEquals("select * from ecitem where rank(myfield = (-5));", query.yqlRepresentation());
+        assertEquals("RANK myfield:-5", query.getModel().getQueryTree().getRoot().toString());
+    }
+
+    @Test
     public void testAnnotatedUserInputUnrankedTerms() {
         URIBuilder builder = searchUri();
         builder.setParameter("yql",