fix(controllers): case-insensitive search ranking in employee/lead/bom queries on Postgres

employee_query, lead_query and bom() ranked autocomplete results with a bare
Locate(txt, col) in ORDER BY. frappe maps Locate -> strpos on Postgres, which is
case-sensitive, while MariaDB's LOCATE against a column uses the column's
case-insensitive collation. So the search-dropdown ordering diverged between engines for
mixed-case matches (row count/membership unchanged — the WHERE .like() is already ILIKE).

Wrap both Locate operands in Lower(), matching the sibling item_query/get_project_name
handlers in the same file: a no-op on MariaDB, and case-insensitive (MariaDB-faithful) on
Postgres. The existing test_queries suite stays green on both engines.
This commit is contained in:
Mihir Kandoi
2026-06-22 19:00:14 +05:30
parent a120bf8363
commit 98e8d5690e

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@@ -71,14 +71,17 @@ def employee_query(
.where(Criterion.any(search_conditions))
.orderby(
Case()
.when(Locate(txt_no_percent, Employee.name) > 0, Locate(txt_no_percent, Employee.name))
.when(
Locate(Lower(txt_no_percent), Lower(Employee.name)) > 0,
Locate(Lower(txt_no_percent), Lower(Employee.name)),
)
.else_(99999)
)
.orderby(
Case()
.when(
Locate(txt_no_percent, Employee.employee_name) > 0,
Locate(txt_no_percent, Employee.employee_name),
Locate(Lower(txt_no_percent), Lower(Employee.employee_name)) > 0,
Locate(Lower(txt_no_percent), Lower(Employee.employee_name)),
)
.else_(99999)
)
@@ -134,17 +137,28 @@ def lead_query(
query.where(Lead.docstatus < 2)
.where(Lead.status.isnull() | (Lead.status != "Converted"))
.where(Criterion.any(search_conditions))
.orderby(
Case().when(Locate(txt_no_percent, Lead.name) > 0, Locate(txt_no_percent, Lead.name)).else_(99999)
)
.orderby(
Case()
.when(Locate(txt_no_percent, Lead.lead_name) > 0, Locate(txt_no_percent, Lead.lead_name))
.when(
Locate(Lower(txt_no_percent), Lower(Lead.name)) > 0,
Locate(Lower(txt_no_percent), Lower(Lead.name)),
)
.else_(99999)
)
.orderby(
Case()
.when(Locate(txt_no_percent, Lead.company_name) > 0, Locate(txt_no_percent, Lead.company_name))
.when(
Locate(Lower(txt_no_percent), Lower(Lead.lead_name)) > 0,
Locate(Lower(txt_no_percent), Lower(Lead.lead_name)),
)
.else_(99999)
)
.orderby(
Case()
.when(
Locate(Lower(txt_no_percent), Lower(Lead.company_name)) > 0,
Locate(Lower(txt_no_percent), Lower(Lead.company_name)),
)
.else_(99999)
)
.orderby(Lead.idx, order=Order.desc)
@@ -382,7 +396,12 @@ def bom(
.where(BOM.is_active == 1)
.where(BOM[searchfield].like(f"%{txt}%"))
.orderby(
Case().when(Locate(txt_no_percent, BOM.name) > 0, Locate(txt_no_percent, BOM.name)).else_(99999)
Case()
.when(
Locate(Lower(txt_no_percent), Lower(BOM.name)) > 0,
Locate(Lower(txt_no_percent), Lower(BOM.name)),
)
.else_(99999)
)
.orderby(BOM.idx, order=Order.desc)
.orderby(BOM.name)