Body: <p>I have an endpoint for searching entries via the element api.</p>
  <pre><code>'api/searchtherest.json' =&gt; function () {
  
              $section_handle = 'openFunding';
  
              $criteria = [
                  'section' =&gt; $section_handle,
                  'openForFunding' =&gt; true,
                  'search' =&gt; ($q = Craft::$app-&gt;request-&gt;getParam('query'))
                      ? &quot;-title:*\&quot;{$q}\&quot;*&quot;
                      : null
              ];
  
              return [
                  'elementType' =&gt; Entry::class,
                  'criteria' =&gt; $criteria,
                  'paginate' =&gt; false,
                  'pretty' =&gt; false,
                  'transformer' =&gt; function (craft\elements\Entry $entry) {
  
                      return [
                          'id' =&gt; $entry-&gt;id,
                          'title' =&gt; $entry-&gt;title,
                          'localauthority' =&gt; $entry-&gt;ladnm,
                          'mapitAreaId' =&gt; $entry-&gt;mapitAreaId,
                          'fundableRegion' =&gt; $entry-&gt;fundableRegion,
                          'openForFunding' =&gt; $entry-&gt;openForFunding,
                          'geojson' =&gt; json_decode($entry-&gt;geojson),
                          'lsoacode' =&gt; $entry-&gt;lsoacode
                      ];
                  },
  
              ];
          },
  
  </code></pre>
  <p>Because the titles have spaces i am following Brandon's advice here
  <a href="https://github.com/craftcms/cms/issues/2702" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/craftcms/cms/issues/2702</a></p>
  <p>But wrapping the query in quotes still produces zero data.
  What am I missing?</p>
  
Comments.ContentLicense: CC BY-SA 4.0
Comments.CreationDate: 2021-12-16T04:11:14.127Z
Comments.Text: In your query "-title:*\"{$q}\"*" try to remove the - in the start of the query, is there result still same?
Comments.UserDisplayName: aodihis
Comments.ContentLicense: CC BY-SA 4.0
Comments.CreationDate: 2021-12-16T09:27:24.073Z
Comments.Text: That's the exclude flag - the result with or without is still no data. Weird and a real blocker
Comments.UserDisplayName: joomkit
Comments.ContentLicense: CC BY-SA 4.0
Comments.CreationDate: 2021-12-16T15:28:57.243Z
Comments.Text: Do you get the right results searching in your control panel? As in, are things correctly indexed?
Comments.UserDisplayName: Oli
Comments.ContentLicense: CC BY-SA 4.0
Comments.CreationDate: 2021-12-16T15:31:26.210Z
Comments.Text: Interesting - I took the "-" not exclude flag out and cleared the element-api cache and get results with the space. So i think the question becomes how do i exclude results in an element-api search query that includes a space.....maybe a bug ?
Comments.UserDisplayName: joomkit
Tags: <search><plugin-elementapi>
Title: Element-api search with space in query returns zero data
ThreadText: # Element-api search with space in query returns zero data
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2021-12-15)
  
  I have an endpoint for searching entries via the element api.
  
  ```
  'api/searchtherest.json' => function () {
  
              $section_handle = 'openFunding';
  
              $criteria = [
                  'section' => $section_handle,
                  'openForFunding' => true,
                  'search' => ($q = Craft::$app->request->getParam('query'))
                      ? "-title:*\"{$q}\"*"
                      : null
              ];
  
              return [
                  'elementType' => Entry::class,
                  'criteria' => $criteria,
                  'paginate' => false,
                  'pretty' => false,
                  'transformer' => function (craft\elements\Entry $entry) {
  
                      return [
                          'id' => $entry->id,
                          'title' => $entry->title,
                          'localauthority' => $entry->ladnm,
                          'mapitAreaId' => $entry->mapitAreaId,
                          'fundableRegion' => $entry->fundableRegion,
                          'openForFunding' => $entry->openForFunding,
                          'geojson' => json_decode($entry->geojson),
                          'lsoacode' => $entry->lsoacode
                      ];
                  },
  
              ];
          },
  
  ```
  
  Because the titles have spaces i am following Brandon's advice here
  <https://github.com/craftcms/cms/issues/2702>
  
  But wrapping the query in quotes still produces zero data.
  What am I missing?
  
  **Tags:** search, plugin-elementapi
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: In your query "-title:*\"{$q}\"*" try to remove the - in the start of the query, is there result still same?  
  > **username_0**: That's the exclude flag - the result with or without is still no data. Weird and a real blocker  
  > **username_2**: Do you get the right results searching in your control panel? As in, are things correctly indexed?  
  > **username_0**: Interesting - I took the "-" not exclude flag out and cleared the element-api cache and get results with the space. So i think the question becomes how do i exclude results in an element-api search query that includes a space.....maybe a bug ?  
  
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