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Troubleshooting Typo Search Functionality in TS

TLDR Martin had issues with typo search in TS. However, it turned out to be a problem with a downstream system after Kishore Nallan assisted with various solutions.

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Aug 17, 2023 (1 month ago)

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Martin

12:24 PM

Hey folks, we're currently evaluating TS and it looks great overall but somehow we can't get typo search to work at all. If I search for spongeb I get results for Spongebob, but when I search for spongebb (additional b at the end), then I get zero results.
I already tried changing typo_tokens_threshold to 2 or 3 and change the min limits, but nothing.
Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?

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Kishore Nallan

12:39 PM

Try reducing default value for min_len_2typo which set to 7.

Martin

12:39 PM

thanks, I already reduced that to 5 and no difference

Kishore Nallan

12:39 PM

There's also min_len_1typo

Martin

12:39 PM

I set that to 2

Kishore Nallan

12:40 PM

Are you doing a prefix search? (if you don't send prefix=false it's a prefix search)

Martin

12:40 PM

I don't set this, so seems I am

Kishore Nallan

12:54 PM

I just tried reproducing this with a single record but could not. Can you post a small fully reproduceable snippet?

Aug 18, 2023 (1 month ago)

Martin

07:01 AM

it turned out I fooled myself and it was actually an issue with a downstream system. Thanks for your help anyway!

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