Discussing Filter Operators in Typesense
TLDR Roshan asked about the functionality of the 'contains' operator in Typesense filters. Kishore Nallan explained how to use the operator and suggested using a curl query for better insight into the issue. However, the thread ends without a resolution.
Feb 17, 2022 (21 months ago)
Roshan
11:13 AMI don't see contains, doesn't contains filter operators there. Does typesense support that?
I also couldn't find all the supported operators in filter by in docs. can you share the link?
Kishore Nallan
11:14 AMKishore Nallan
11:17 AMfilter_by parameter here: https://typesense.org/docs/0.22.2/api/documents.html#search-parametersRoshan
11:19 AMfilter_by:author_name:=chetan bhagat
above filter by query works for exact match
But for following query
filter_by:author_name:=chet
it doesn't work because the operator (:=) exact match but i want operator contains/like
Kishore Nallan
11:19 AMfilter_by=author_name:chetanWill work, just don't add the
=Kishore Nallan
11:20 AM> To match a string field exactly, you can use the
:= operator. For eg: category:= Shoe will match documents from the category shoes and not from a category like shoe rack.Kishore Nallan
11:21 AMRoshan
11:22 AMKishore Nallan
11:22 AMfilter_by=author_name:chetan will do a contains of the field so "Chetan Bhagat" will match. It's not possible to do fuzzy filtering. For that you need to use the q parameter.Kishore Nallan
11:22 AMRoshan
11:27 AMilter_by=author_name:chetan will do a contains of the field so "Chetan Bhagat" will match. no it doesn't work in my caseKishore Nallan
11:32 AMRoshan
11:41 AMin this book search example. can you try filter_by=author_name:Dale and can you check you check in your result whehter books with author name name Dale carnegie appears or not ?
Kishore Nallan
11:41 AMRoshan
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