From 28c03e5e8147d94775248493a2dfc68a67a98ab6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Nicolas=20=C3=89vrard?= <nicoe@b2ck.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:23:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Consider empty string and None as incompatible with full text
 searches

Closes #14691
---
 trytond/trytond/tests/test_field_char.py | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 trytond/trytond/tools/misc.py            |  2 ++
 2 files changed, 36 insertions(+)

diff --git a/trytond/trytond/tests/test_field_char.py b/trytond/trytond/tests/test_field_char.py
index b95bea33ca..ea9b8abfb4 100644
--- a/trytond/trytond/tests/test_field_char.py
+++ b/trytond/trytond/tests/test_field_char.py
@@ -820,6 +820,40 @@ class FieldCharSimilarityTestCase(ExtensionTestCase):
         pool = Pool()
         self._test_search(pool.get('test.char_translate'))
 
+    @with_transaction()
+    def test_search_empty(self):
+        "Test a full text search with an empty string"
+        pool = Pool()
+        Char = pool.get('test.char')
+
+        record1, record2 = Char.create([{
+                    'char': "word",
+                    }, {
+                    'char': "",
+                    }])
+
+        with Transaction().set_context(search_similarity=0.3):
+            self.assertEqual(
+                Char.search([('char', 'ilike', '')]),
+                [record2])
+
+    @with_transaction()
+    def test_search_null(self):
+        "Test a full text search with NULL"
+        pool = Pool()
+        Char = pool.get('test.char')
+
+        record1, record2 = Char.create([{
+                    'char': "word",
+                    }, {
+                    'char': None,
+                    }])
+
+        with Transaction().set_context(search_similarity=0.3):
+            self.assertEqual(
+                Char.search([('char', 'ilike', None)]),
+                [record2])
+
     def _test_order(self, Model):
         record1, record2 = Model.create([{
                     'char': "word",
diff --git a/trytond/trytond/tools/misc.py b/trytond/trytond/tools/misc.py
index f9c6fda536..35a5f4084f 100644
--- a/trytond/trytond/tools/misc.py
+++ b/trytond/trytond/tools/misc.py
@@ -223,6 +223,8 @@ def unescape_wildcard(string, wildcards='%_', escape='\\'):
 
 
 def is_full_text(value, escape='\\'):
+    if not value:
+        return False
     escaped = strip_wildcard(value, escape=escape)
     escaped = escaped.replace(escape + '%', '').replace(escape + '_', '')
     if '%' in escaped or '_' in escaped: