Docs: f1_keywords for subtraction isn't working

[Youssef1313]

https://msdn.microsoft.com/query/dev16.query?appId=Dev16IDEF1&l=EN-US&k=k(-_CSharpKeyword);k(DevLang-csharp)&rd=true
Currently, this just redirects to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/

I don't know if it's a temporary problem or not. I see that f1_keywords for "-_CSharpKeyword" already exists in subtraction operator article. The issue reason isn't clear to me.

[Youssef1313]

@davidwengier Could you please look at what could be the issue here?

The service flakiness is fixed and all f1 keywords are working, except this one.

msdn.microsoft.com/query/dev16.query?appId=Dev16IDEF1&l=EN-US&k=k($_CSharpKeyword);k(DevLang-csharp)&rd=true (working)

msdn.microsoft.com/query/dev16.query?appId=Dev16IDEF1&l=EN-US&k=k(-_CSharpKeyword);k(DevLang-csharp)&rd=true (not working)

[davidwengier]

@BillWagner Any idea who we can reach out to for this issue?

I'm seeing very intermittent results with the query service, and the link in the OP is much slower than any other link I try, and always fails.

[BillWagner]

I checked, and the site team thinks this is fixed in the new Docs F1 service. (Not yet released)

Adding @OsmondJiang for more details.

[Youssef1313]

@BillWagner Please ping me with the new service URL when released. If the new URL doesn't have a hard-coded version, this might fix the error-messages F1 in Roslyn.

[OsmondJiang]

add @junshi356 who is working on the new Docs F1 service, he will give a update once we rolled the new F1 Service which should also support this f1 keywords

[davidwengier]

Looks like this is now working, but a different link is failing. I'm seeing the same results as per this comment:

https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/issues/46988#issuecomment-683149510

Is there anything we can do to fix this, or do we just wait for the new service?

[BillWagner]

@davidwengier I'm looking for the contact to put you in touch with.

[junshi356]

The behavior of https://msdn.microsoft.com/query/dev16.query?appId=Dev16IDEF1&l=EN-US&k=k(-_CSharpKeyword);k(DevLang-csharp)&rd=true is fine now. We believe that this issue is resolved.

[Youssef1313]

Thanks @junshi356, but the following one is not working :cry:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/query/dev16.query?appId=Dev16IDEF1&l=EN-US&k=k(+_CSharpKeyword);k(DevLang-csharp)&rd=true

[junshi356]

Please encode the url before sending request. (The product like VisualStudio/SSMS will also encode the url)

https://msdn.microsoft.com/query/dev16.query?appId=Dev16IDEF1&l=EN-US&k=k(%2B_CSharpKeyword);k(DevLang-csharp)&rd=true
Just goes to the page you want, I guess.

[Youssef1313]

Works with encoding!
Thanks.