From e7425fb74724a8ee3965cc0e588bad9aff335487 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: zsloan
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 12:13:59 -0600
Subject: Bad searches should now return a nicer error page

---
 wqflask/wqflask/search_results.py | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/wqflask/wqflask/search_results.py b/wqflask/wqflask/search_results.py
index c44436d8..d76add67 100644
--- a/wqflask/wqflask/search_results.py
+++ b/wqflask/wqflask/search_results.py
@@ -81,7 +81,12 @@ views.py).
         assert(is_str(kw.get('dataset')))
         self.dataset = create_dataset(kw['dataset'], dataset_type)
         logger.debug("search_terms:", self.search_terms)
-        self.search()
+
+        #ZS: I don't like using try/except, but it seems like the easiest way to account for all possible bad searches here
+        try:
+            self.search()
+        except:
+            self.search_term_exists = False
         if self.search_term_exists:
             self.gen_search_result()
 
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