Searching for exact user ids in the user directory fails to match

[Half-Shot]

Description

curl 'https://matrix.half-shot.uk/_matrix/client/r0/user_directory/search?' --data '{"search_term":"@Half-Shot:half-shot.uk"}'

Results in: { "limited": false, "results": [] }

Whereas:

curl 'https://matrix.half-shot.uk/_matrix/client/r0/user_directory/search?' --data '{"search_term":"@Half-Shot:half-shot"}'

Comes back with many results, including the one I was after.

Version information

• Version: Synapse/0.33.0

[bmarty]

FTR in Element Android we add manually the matrixId in the search result if the search term is a valid matrixId and if it is not return by synapse. But the avatar is not available when we are doing that.