Use of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection API search parameters

[mikedjgreen]

Firstly, thank you for providing an API to search your wonderful art collection.

I found it from an article posted on the programmable web's 'API University', (https://www.programmableweb.com/api-university) .

I have found your search portal easy to use and I am working on a study project for the Code Institute,(https://courses.codeinstitute.net/program/FullstackWebDeveloper).

I do have one question though (!?).
When I set criteria of departmentId=11 and q=sunflowers I get 13 objects in the resulting list. So far so good.
When I reverse the order of the criteria, q=sunflower first, departmentId second, then I get only one object id,436703. Title=Madame Jacques-Louis Leblanc by Ingres.

Should this be so?

[stephenhmarsh]

@spencerk confirmed this is a bug:

https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/public/collection/v1/search?q=sunflower&departmentId=11 
https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/public/collection/v1/search?departmentId=11&q=sunflower

yields different results

[stephenhmarsh]

Some more examples:

1480
https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/public/collection/v1/search?isHighlight=true&q=""

112
https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/public/collection/v1/search?q=&isHighlight=true

17
https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/public/collection/v1/search?q=sun&isHighlight=true

120
https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/public/collection/v1/search?isHighlight=true&q=sun