Bitbucket REST API branches?filterText does not find branches under certain cirmumstances

[Peter Freeman]

We have a branch structure with information encoded similar to this:

feature/v1.abc12345.67890

We would like to use the Bitbucket REST API on our server to find this branch based on the 5 digit number.

Searching for 12345 does not work:

https://bitbucketServer.company.com/rest/api/1.0/projects/wfc/repos/testRepo/branches?filterText=12345

Searching for 67890 does work:

https://bitbucketServer.company.com/rest/api/1.0/projects/wfc/repos/testRepo/branches?filterText=67890

Adding context back to preceding period (abc12345) does work:

https://bitbucketServer.company.com/rest/api/1.0/projects/wfc/repos/testRepo/branches?filterText=abc12345

Other observations:

It seems like the filter text parses on special characters like: / . -

Then it will incrementally search from left to right.

Here are some more examples that will find that branch:

• feat
• ab
• v
• .abc12345
• v1.abc123
• 678

Here are some more examples that will not find that branch

• ture
• bc12345
• 7890
• 1.abc12345

Is this a bug?

If it is a bug, can it be fixed?