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Bug 304625

Summary:	REST API search should do partial word matches
Product:	Community	Reporter:	David Green <greensopinion>
Component:	Marketplace	Assignee:	Marketplace Inbox <marketplace-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	nathan
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description David Green

2010-03-04 00:54:15 EST

Searching for 'jbos' returns no results, however searching for 'jboss' returns many.  The same applies for other words.  It seems that searching only matches whole words, not partial words.  This behaviour occurs both via the REST API and via the web search.

The search function should do partial word matches.  I believe partial word matching is the defacto standard on the web.  Take for example the same search via Google: "jbos":http://www.google.com/search?q=jbos Many results appear, the first one being JBoss.

Comment 1 Nathan Gervais

2010-03-04 08:03:05 EST

Currently the ApacheSolr Module for Drupal doesn't support this feature.  However i have found an issue on the module that I will post here for info. http://drupal.org/node/270412


I'm hoping that this feature becomes available when 6.2 of the module is released.

Marking as WONTFIX for now as I'm very hesitant to change the search engine code.