From 759f71cb53c669c08721ed614cb04de0d7217b4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Damir=20Jeli=C4=87?= <poljar@termina.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 11:38:43 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Searching: Return an empty result if the search term is an
 empty string.

This mimics the behaviour we get from synapse as, this fixes
https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/12715.
---
 src/Searching.js | 12 +++++++-----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/Searching.js b/src/Searching.js
index a5d945f64b..663328fe41 100644
--- a/src/Searching.js
+++ b/src/Searching.js
@@ -87,6 +87,13 @@ async function localSearch(searchTerm, roomId = undefined) {
         searchArgs.room_id = roomId;
     }
 
+    const emptyResult = {
+        results: [],
+        highlights: [],
+    };
+
+    if (searchTerm === "") return emptyResult;
+
     const eventIndex = EventIndexPeg.get();
 
     const localResult = await eventIndex.search(searchArgs);
@@ -97,11 +104,6 @@ async function localSearch(searchTerm, roomId = undefined) {
         },
     };
 
-    const emptyResult = {
-        results: [],
-        highlights: [],
-    };
-
     const result = MatrixClientPeg.get()._processRoomEventsSearch(
         emptyResult, response);