From 9ce7471550d86f2ab9019a8204a677ada0174d1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrik Oldsberg <poldsberg@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:04:18 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] plugin-search: delete orphaned UrlUpdater.tsx

Signed-off-by: Patrik Oldsberg <poldsberg@gmail.com>
Made-with: Cursor
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 .../src/components/SearchPage/UrlUpdater.tsx  | 85 -------------------
 1 file changed, 85 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 plugins/search/src/components/SearchPage/UrlUpdater.tsx

diff --git a/plugins/search/src/components/SearchPage/UrlUpdater.tsx b/plugins/search/src/components/SearchPage/UrlUpdater.tsx
deleted file mode 100644
index 9e94fe6d61..0000000000
--- a/plugins/search/src/components/SearchPage/UrlUpdater.tsx
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,85 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Copyright 2023 The Backstage Authors
- *
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-
-import { useEffect } from 'react';
-import usePrevious from 'react-use/esm/usePrevious';
-import qs from 'qs';
-import { useLocation } from 'react-router-dom';
-import { useSearch } from '@backstage/plugin-search-react';
-import { JsonObject } from '@backstage/types';
-
-export const UrlUpdater = () => {
-  const location = useLocation();
-  const {
-    term,
-    setTerm,
-    types,
-    setTypes,
-    pageCursor,
-    setPageCursor,
-    filters,
-    setFilters,
-  } = useSearch();
-
-  const prevQueryParams = usePrevious(location.search);
-
-  useEffect(() => {
-    // Only respond to changes to url query params
-    if (location.search === prevQueryParams) {
-      return;
-    }
-
-    const query =
-      qs.parse(location.search.substring(1), { arrayLimit: 10000 }) || {};
-
-    if (query.filters) {
-      setFilters(query.filters as JsonObject);
-    }
-
-    if (query.query) {
-      setTerm(query.query as string);
-    }
-
-    if (query.pageCursor) {
-      setPageCursor(query.pageCursor as string);
-    }
-
-    if (query.types) {
-      setTypes(query.types as string[]);
-    }
-  }, [prevQueryParams, location, setTerm, setTypes, setPageCursor, setFilters]);
-
-  useEffect(() => {
-    const newParams = qs.stringify(
-      {
-        query: term,
-        types,
-        pageCursor,
-        filters,
-      },
-      { arrayFormat: 'brackets' },
-    );
-    const newUrl = `${window.location.pathname}?${newParams}`;
-
-    // We directly manipulate window history here in order to not re-render
-    // infinitely (state => location => state => etc). The intention of this
-    // code is just to ensure the right query/filters are loaded when a user
-    // clicks the "back" button after clicking a result.
-    window.history.replaceState(null, document.title, newUrl);
-  }, [term, types, pageCursor, filters]);
-
-  return null;
-};