From 2b53fab01fd3947e2475f8038fa6dd572e9b36aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Max Goodman <max@reddit.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:27:03 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Wait for 2 characters before querying interest bar.

---
 r2/r2/controllers/api.py              | 3 ++-
 r2/r2/public/static/js/interestbar.js | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/r2/r2/controllers/api.py b/r2/r2/controllers/api.py
index 5ef162731..5def80338 100755
--- a/r2/r2/controllers/api.py
+++ b/r2/r2/controllers/api.py
@@ -2871,7 +2871,8 @@ class ApiController(RedditController, OAuth2ResourceController):
         if not g.CLOUDSEARCH_SEARCH_API:
             return []
 
-        if not query or not query.strip():
+        query = query and query.strip()
+        if not query or len(query) < 2:
             return []
 
         exclude = Subreddit.default_subreddits()
diff --git a/r2/r2/public/static/js/interestbar.js b/r2/r2/public/static/js/interestbar.js
index 9ec7942b7..e2fa37ffb 100644
--- a/r2/r2/public/static/js/interestbar.js
+++ b/r2/r2/public/static/js/interestbar.js
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ r.ui.InterestBar.prototype = {
         }
 
         this.queryChangedDebounced(query)
-        if (query) {
+        if (query && query.length > 1) {
             this.$el.addClass('working')
         } else {
             this.hideResults()
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ r.ui.InterestBar.prototype = {
     },
 
     queryChanged: function(query) {
-        if (query) {
+        if (query && query.length > 1) {
             $.ajax({
                 url: '/api/subreddits_by_topic.json',
                 data: {'query': query},