Search is returning 500 Internal Server Error or Null

[danwagnerco]

Hey HacktheUniverse team -- very cool project!

I am getting an interesting response when attempting to use the search endpoint. The documentation, for example, is returning:

$ curl http://star-api.herokuapp.com/api/v1/search?q=%22Sun%22
{"status":"500","error":"Internal Server Error"}

On the other hand, when I try a different search, like the star "HIP1 HD224700 Gli", a null response comes back:

$ curl http://star-api.herokuapp.com/api/v1/stars/search?q=%22HIP1%20HD224700%20Gli%22
null

Am I incorrectly forming the URL?

[surenm]

Hey @danwagnerco, thanks for reporting this.

Unfortunately, We removed the elasticsearch plugin to the site (it was costly and there wasn't anybody using until this moment), so the search endpoint has been disabled for sometime now.The /stars/search returns a 200 OK because of how we have written our routes but there is nothing available at that end point either.

(What is really happening is you are searching for a star with ID: search which obviously doesn't exist)

Can you share what is your exact use case so that I can see if I can do something for you?

Cheers,
-Suren