Fuzzy Search - Partial Search

[kand617]

As a end-user I would like to:
Search with partial keyword

e.g date
should match with releaseDate

One solution could be to prefix and postfix each word with *
However if we blindly do this, we could have unexpected side effects with the hibernate search query parameters behaviour.

e.g user searches for The "release version" --> this would match "releaseDate"
The user explicit;y mentioned the phrase release version and so it should not match releaseDate.

[kand617]

Currently hibernate search allows the following:

The following query types are supported:

• boolean (AND using “+”, OR using “|”, NOT using “-“)
• prefix (prefix*)
• phrase (“some phrase”)
• precedence (using parentheses)
• fuzzy (fuzy~2)
• near operator for phrase queries (“some phrase”~3)

e.g "Aple~2 + "iPhone X" + (256 | 128)"

Rather than modifying the behavior, why not teach the user how to search effectively?
For example:

When the user clicks on expand. each search term would have * prefixed and postfixed to it.

Alternatively when there are too many results we could have some message linking to a popup with defining search operators.

[kand617]

@sudhirtumati @koushiknama your thoughts?