It's the way the underlying bookmark model code works. You can see this in action by bringing up the bookmarks manager and typing in the search box.
It's possible for us to expose something that searches folders as well (although I think it would be best if it were explicit and not by default). Feel free to add comments to bug 17306. Erik On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Nick Baum <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Erik, > What's the reason the search doesn't work for folders? > I had a use case for that this weekend: I was writing an extension to > bookmark all open tabs, and wanted to retrieve a particular folder to store > them in. > -Nick > On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Erik Kay <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Erik Kay<[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 6:22 AM, disya2<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> At bookmarks API doc page I failed to find what is "query" in "search" >> >> method. After some research I found that people pass folder names and >> >> urls to find something but found no detailed description. Is there a >> >> clear definition of that "query"? Can I use regexp, wildcards? How >> >> could I write queries for bookmarks/folders only? >> > >> > Search works for bookmarks only, not folders. "query" is broken up >> > into individual "words". If those words appear anywhere in the title >> > or URL (as case-insensitive substring matches), then the bookmark will >> > match the query. There are no regexps or wildcards. Here are some >> > examples: >> > >> > (1) Foo bar baz - http://www.example.com/hello >> > (2) foo quux - http://www.example.com/bar >> > (3) bar baz - http://www.google.com/hello >> > >> > "bar hello" - matches (1) and (3) >> > "foo hello" - matches (1) >> > "foo example" - matches (1) and (2) >> > "foo bar" - matches (1) and (2) >> >> Apologies, but my examples are incorrect. The phrasing should be >> "only if all of the words appear in the title or all of the words >> appear in the URL". It doesn't work in combination with one word in >> the title and one word in the URL. >> >> So in my above examples, only the last one would match anything (1). >> >> Given the above data, let's try a few better examples: >> "bar baz" - matches (1) and (2) >> "www hello" - matches (1) and (3) >> "bar example" - matches (2) >> >> Erik >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-extensions" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
