Search only searching in challenge spec and not title

[SathyaJayabal]

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@rootelement , when we search for a specific term, challenge api returns only when search term is found in the challenge description. It does not consider title. This was working fine before.

Example:

[ThomasKranitsas]

@SathyaJayabal in order to fix/improve our search functionality, can you please create a list of expected search queries and results along with a simple explanation so we can improve our code? Something like:

• Searching for node API should return Implement an API using NodeJs. Explanation: all query terms are partially present in any order

We need as many use case scenarios as possible so we build a strong searching mechanism.

[rootelement]

Might be a question for @Oanh-and-only-Oanh as well.

[ThomasKranitsas]

@SathyaJayabal @Oanh-and-only-Oanh any update here?

[SathyaJayabal]

@ThomasKranitsas , the basic search which was working before is : Searching for node API should return challenges which have the words node API either in the title or the description(contest spec).

@Oanh-and-only-Oanh , please add any further requirements.

[ThomasKranitsas]

IMHO, searching for node API should return challenges that:

1. have the node API in the title (case insensitive)
2. OR have the node API in the description (case insensitive)
3. OR have the tag node (partial match - case insensitive)
4. OR have the tag API (partial match - case insensitive)

we could make this more advanced by extracting all words in step 1 and use them separately as a query with lower weight so we can also match things like Implement an API using NodeJS (both terms are present but in a different order)

Let me know if we should implement the search this way

[rootelement]

I almost think the weight should be:

1. Title Exact Match Phrase
2. Tag exact match
3. Description Exact Match
4. Title Fuzzy Match (tokenized)
5. Tag Fuzzy
6. Description Fuzzy

[Oanh-and-only-Oanh]

I agree with @rootelement but as a minimum we'd like it to return challenges which has the search terms either in the title or the description(contest spec).

[Oanh-and-only-Oanh]

@rootelement @ThomasKranitsas, when will this fixed be released?

[ThomasKranitsas]

@Oanh-and-only-Oanh there's a PR https://github.com/topcoder-platform/challenge-api/pull/428 for this.

@rootelement should we merge that to prod?

[rootelement]

This was pushed to prod earlier today

[SathyaJayabal]

@ThomasKranitsas, still search does not return the challenge when we search by a word in the challenge title

[SathyaJayabal]

@ThomasKranitsas , search is now not returning when the search term is found in a tag.

For example, when we click on any of the tags for a challenge in listings page, it doesn't return any results.

[SathyaJayabal]

cc @luizrrodrigues