No return data when querying the user object in parse

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The below should query the parse.com backend and return either a matched user based on the text input or no match, no match meaning that their is no user with that name stored in the parse data browser.

The code runs, but seems to have no results or errors showing. I'm trying to work out why and understand how the code would need to change to correct this?

url is here http://kudosoo.com/findfriends.html

  <form class="Find Friend">

        <div class="error" style="display:none"></div>
        <input type="text" id="friendsearch" placeholder="Find Friend" class="input-field" required/> 
        <button type="submit" onclick = "finduser" >Find</button> 
</form>        

    <!-- Initialize the Parse object-->
    <script type="text/javascript">     
    Parse.initialize("xxxx", "xxxxx");


    function finduser() {

var findFriend = $('#friendsearch').val();
    var query = new Parse.Query(Parse.User);
    query.equalTo("username", findFriend); // find users that match
    query.find({
        success: function (friend) {
            if (findFriend.length) { console.log("Found match")} 

        },
        error: function (error) {
     if (findFriend.length === 0) { console.log("No match")} 

        }

    });
};

</script>

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:14:31Z

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It sounds like you may have run into the issue with case-sensitivity.

The common solution we use is to create a before-save Cloud-Code module that creates a searchable version that we use .toLowerCase() on.

In your case that would be search_username, then when you're doing searches you use that field, using the input value which you also apply .toLowerCase() to before searching.

If you do a search here you'll find a bunch of other questions which go into more detail on how to implement it.

Here's one I answered a while back.

edited May 23, 2017 at 12:14

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Dano007 Over a year ago

Thanks, sounds like this could be a little above my skill set...but will try and do some further research

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