Allow keywords to match either substrings or whole words.

Word-boundary matching only works as intended in English and languages
that use similar word-breaking characters; it doesn't work so well in
(say) Japanese, Chinese, or Thai.  It's unacceptable to have a feature
that doesn't work as intended for some languages.  (Moreso especially
considering that it's likely that the largest contingent on the Mastodon
bit of the fediverse speaks Japanese.)

There are rules specified in Unicode TR29[1] for word-breaking across
all languages supported by Unicode, but the rules deliberately do not
cover all cases.  In fact, TR29 states

    For example, reliable detection of word boundaries in languages such
    as Thai, Lao, Chinese, or Japanese requires the use of dictionary
    lookup, analogous to English hyphenation.

So we aren't going to be able to make word detection work with regexes
within Mastodon (or glitchsoc).  However, for a first pass (even if it's
kind of punting) we can allow the user to choose whether they want word
or substring detection and warn about the limitations of this
implementation in, say, docs.

[1]: https://unicode.org/reports/tr29/
     https://web.archive.org/web/20171001005125/https://unicode.org/reports/tr29/
th-downstream
David Yip 7 years ago
parent 018657a0e0
commit 05ee0aeb8b

@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
# id :integer not null, primary key
# account_id :integer not null
# keyword :string not null
# whole_word :boolean default(TRUE), not null
# created_at :datetime not null
# updated_at :datetime not null
#
@ -32,12 +33,13 @@ class KeywordMute < ApplicationRecord
def initialize(account_id)
re = [].tap do |arr|
KeywordMute.where(account_id: account_id).select(:keyword, :id).find_each do |m|
arr << Regexp.escape(m.keyword.strip)
KeywordMute.where(account_id: account_id).select(:keyword, :id, :whole_word).find_each do |m|
boundary = m.whole_word ? '\b' : ''
arr << "#{boundary}#{Regexp.escape(m.keyword.strip)}#{boundary}"
end
end.join('|')
@regex = /\b(?:#{re})\b/i unless re.empty?
@regex = /#{re}/i unless re.empty?
end
def =~(str)

@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ class CreateKeywordMutes < ActiveRecord::Migration[5.1]
create_table :keyword_mutes do |t|
t.references :account, null: false
t.string :keyword, null: false
t.boolean :whole_word, null: false, default: true
t.timestamps
end

@ -170,6 +170,7 @@ ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 20171010025614) do
create_table "keyword_mutes", force: :cascade do |t|
t.bigint "account_id", null: false
t.string "keyword", null: false
t.boolean "whole_word", default: true, null: false
t.datetime "created_at", null: false
t.datetime "updated_at", null: false
t.index ["account_id"], name: "index_keyword_mutes_on_account_id"

@ -30,10 +30,16 @@ RSpec.describe KeywordMute, type: :model do
expect(matcher =~ 'This is a hot take').to be_falsy
end
it 'does not match substrings matching keywords' do
KeywordMute.create!(account: alice, keyword: 'take')
it 'considers word boundaries when matching' do
KeywordMute.create!(account: alice, keyword: 'bob', whole_word: true)
expect(matcher =~ 'bobcats').to be_falsy
end
it 'matches substrings if whole_word is false' do
KeywordMute.create!(account: alice, keyword: 'take', whole_word: false)
expect(matcher =~ 'This is a shiitake mushroom').to be_falsy
expect(matcher =~ 'This is a shiitake mushroom').to be_truthy
end
it 'matches keywords at the beginning of the text' do

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