Querying Full Names in Typesense
TLDR clem enquired on how to query full names with spaces in Typesense and attempted solving this by removing the spaces. Kishore Nallan explained Typesense prioritizes exact matches and no preprocessing is required. clem realized the problem was with their client, not Typesense.
Sep 06, 2021 (24 months ago)
clem
02:33 AMusers table with the following attributes:•
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John Smith or Bob Bert. Now i want to query by the full name, meaning my user should be able to query for John Smith1.
fullName is updated, it will set a new attribute called trimmedFullName (which will be remove the space):a.
John Smith => JohnSmith2.
trimmedFullName instead of fullNameapologies, I jumped the gun and it was an issue on the client side where the presence of the space in the url was not triggering the search… indeed the typesense search works like a charm with the space, i just tested in postman
Kishore Nallan
02:34 AMKishore Nallan
02:35 AM?q=john smith&query_by=fullName should already surface exact "John Smith" records at the top.clem
02:40 AMKishore Nallan
02:41 AM
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