Added back in support for "like" that has a leading "%" for lists

2 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/boto/sdb/db/manager/sdbmanager.py b/boto/sdb/db/manager/sdbmanager.py
index 49dac2a0..74a6a699 100644
--- a/boto/sdb/db/manager/sdbmanager.py
+++ b/boto/sdb/db/manager/sdbmanager.py
@@ -418,7 +418,8 @@ class SDBManager(object):
                 op = "like"
             elif op in ("!=", "not"):
                 op = "not like"
-            val = "%%:%s" % val
+            if not(op == "like" and val.startswith("%")):
+                val = "%%:%s" % val
         return "`%s` %s '%s'" % (name, op, val.replace("'", "''"))
 
     def _build_filter_part(self, cls, filters, order_by=None):
diff --git a/tests/db/test_query.py b/tests/db/test_query.py
index 85e1069c..047bf873 100644
--- a/tests/db/test_query.py
+++ b/tests/db/test_query.py
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ class TestQuerying(object):
 
         o = SimpleModel()
         o.name = "Simple Object"
-        o.strs = ["B", "A", "C"]
+        o.strs = ["B", "A", "C", "Foo"]
         o.num = 1
         o.put()
         cls.objs.append(o)
@@ -143,3 +143,10 @@ class TestQuerying(object):
         assert(SimpleModel.find(strs="A").next().id == self.objs[0].id)
         assert(SimpleModel.find(strs="B").next().id == self.objs[0].id)
         assert(SimpleModel.find(strs="C").next().id == self.objs[0].id)
+
+    def test_like(self):
+        """Test with a "like" expression"""
+        query = SimpleModel.all()
+        query.filter("strs like", "%oo%")
+        print query.get_query()
+        assert(query.count() == 1)