X-Git-Url: http://www.git.stargrave.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=lib%2FPublicInbox%2FAltId.pm;h=80757ceba138b984369ed4935d14178bf59d64bc;hb=refs%2Fheads%2Fmaster;hp=5add1ea255dd198440e47ad7e28c07aaaa9bb098;hpb=227a1d886672767e37cc86a3432952c14eb8a143;p=public-inbox.git

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/AltId.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/AltId.pm
index 5add1ea2..80757ceb 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/AltId.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/AltId.pm
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (C) 2016-2019 all contributors <meta@public-inbox.org>
+# Copyright (C) 2016-2021 all contributors <meta@public-inbox.org>
 # License: AGPL-3.0+ <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt>
 
 # Used for giving serial numbers to messages.  This can be tied to
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ sub new {
 	my ($class, $ibx, $spec, $writable) = @_;
 	my ($type, $prefix, $query) = split(/:/, $spec, 3);
 	$type eq 'serial' or die "non-serial not supported, yet\n";
-
+	$prefix =~ /\A\w+\z/ or warn "non-word prefix not searchable\n";
 	my %params = map {
 		my ($k, $v) = split(/=/, uri_unescape($_), 2);
 		$v = '' unless defined $v;
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ sub new {
 	bless {
 		filename => $f,
 		writable => $writable,
+		prefix => $prefix,
 		xprefix => 'X'.uc($prefix),
 	}, $class;
 }