[chef-dev] Identifying malformed search queries

[Joseph Holsten < >]

I'm having trouble tracking down what's wrong with 
https://github.com/edelight/chef-mongodb/issues/118 because the user is ;
receiving a 400 response from a search query. It pissed me off, so I entered 
http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-4228.

But I wonder what the ideal solution to debugging frustrating search queries 
is. Should we just return the fully interpolated string of the search query 
in the error? Should we perform some validation client-side? Should 
chef-server provide a secondary error message? Is the status quo sufficient?
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~j