From 5374b839ce6873299a369b259597abe5d4f673b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Charles Haley <>
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 11:07:12 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Change bool search matching to raise an exception for invalid
 queries

---
 src/calibre/library/caches.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/calibre/library/caches.py b/src/calibre/library/caches.py
index e4342988b8..ca256e0350 100644
--- a/src/calibre/library/caches.py
+++ b/src/calibre/library/caches.py
@@ -560,6 +560,10 @@ class ResultCache(SearchQueryParser): # {{{
         loc = self.field_metadata[location]['rec_index']
         matches = set()
         query = icu_lower(query)
+        if query not in (_('no'), _('unchecked'), '_no', 'false',
+                         _('yes'), _('checked'), '_yes', 'true',
+                         _('empty'), _('blank'), '_empty'):
+            raise ParseException(_('Invalid boolean query "{0}"').format(query))
         for id_ in candidates:
             item = self._data[id_]
             if item is None: