Fix search result paginationssd/search-pagination-fix

The start and rows parameter that are passed as part of the search
request are passed directly to Solr on the backend. Results from Solr
may contain deleted nodes no longer in the erchef database.  Erchef will
filter such nodes from the results. Thus, a user may receive fewer rows
than they asked for. Incrementing 'start' only by the number of rows
received will then result in the next Solr response overlapping the
first, which can lead to duplicate results. In the case of a Solr
results page that was completely filtered, it would lead to an infinite
loop.

This commit changes the code to always increment by the requested page
size (args[:rows]) when it is non-nil. Incrementing by the length of the
response set is still wrong in the case when the args[:rows] is nil, but
the server doesn't give us anything else to increment by.

Fixes #4027

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lib/chef/search/query.rb b/lib/chef/search/query.rb
index 6469a18c49..658af8779c 100644
--- a/lib/chef/search/query.rb
+++ b/lib/chef/search/query.rb
@@ -88,8 +88,21 @@ WARNDEP
 
         if block
           response["rows"].each { |row| block.call(row) if row }
-          unless (response["start"] + response["rows"].length) >= response["total"]
-            args_h[:start] = response["start"] + response["rows"].length
+          #
+          # args_h[:rows] and args_h[:start] are the page size and
+          # start position requested of the search index backing the
+          # search API.
+          #
+          # The response may contain fewer rows than arg_h[:rows] if
+          # the page of index results included deleted nodes which
+          # have been filtered from the returned data. In this case,
+          # we still want to start the next page at start +
+          # args_h[:rows] to avoid asking the search backend for
+          # overlapping pages (which could result in duplicates).
+          #
+          next_start = response["start"] + (args_h[:rows] || response["rows"].length)
+          unless next_start >= response["total"]
+            args_h[:start] = next_start
             search(type, query, args_h, &block)
           end
           true
@@ -99,6 +112,7 @@ WARNDEP
       end
 
       private
+
       def validate_type(t)
         unless t.kind_of?(String) || t.kind_of?(Symbol)
           msg = "Invalid search object type #{t.inspect} (#{t.class}), must be a String or Symbol." +