Hi All,

As per 8.8.2 Resolved Issues for Reporting there is this section

INC-242955

757160

Dev Studio search updated

Search in Dev Studio was not working as expected after update. To resolve this, search has been updated to accept a regex expression containing two hyphens for work ID pattern check.

Reporting

However this still doesn't work.  We are running 8.8.2 and I can see in activity  pzSearchResults which has been updated in Pega-Desktop:08-08-03 step 11 shows the following REGEX.

workIdFormat=tools.getParamValue("searchText").matches("(\\p{L}-)?[\\p{L}0-9][\\p{L}0-9]*-[0-9]+");

This regex does not work correctly.

Take this caseid as an example LP-160424-4 it doesn't match.  Have checked this with https://regex101.com/ it only matches upto the second hyphen and so returns no results.

Years a ago in version 7.31 we got a hotfix for this exact issue in version Pega-Desktop:07-10-34 from version 07-10-33 which contained the following code.

String defaultREGEX="[\\p{L}0-9][\\p{L}0-9]*-[0-9]+";
java.util.regex.Pattern compiledPattern;

workIdREGEX = tools.getSystemSettings().getDynamic("Pega-RULES", "WorkIdREGEX"); 

if ( (workIdREGEX == null) || (workIdREGEX.length()==0) )  { workIdREGEX = defaultREGEX; }
try {
	compiledPattern=java.util.regex.Pattern.compile( workIdREGEX ); 
	}
catch(java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException e) { 
      oLog.error("Bad REGEX provided in DSS 'Pega-RULES','workIdREGEX', using default REGEX"); 
      workIdREGEX = defaultREGEX;  
      compiledPattern=java.util.regex.Pattern.compile( defaultREGEX );
}
java.util.regex.Matcher m=compiledPattern.matcher( tools.getParamValue("searchText") );
workIdFormat=m.matches();

And a DSS recommendation containing this regex

[\w-]+-\d+(-[\d]+)*

Which worked.  I can see going back that in version 08-01-01 this code was reverted back and remains similar albeit with a little tweak but still doesn't work.

Why was this hotfix removed and reverted back?

Cheers
Craig