Media App: Handling Spaces in Search

[zcolah]

Right now if a user searches "fried rice", we show no results, despite there being a file by that name. This is because the file is actually called "fried-rice".

Solution: Could we do a logic workaround where if a user puts a space we put a "-" in our query?

Basically make https://8-ecbcaf83fc-h333c8.manager.zesty.io/media/search?term=fried%20rice to https://8-ecbcaf83fc-h333c8.manager.zesty.io/media/search?term=fried-rice

Also please note that while we add the "-" to the query we do not want to add it to the search box itself.

[shrunyan]

We would not want to add characters to the term, as what if it's separated by an underscore, space, hyphen, period, etc. The solution to this request is "fuzzy" search.

A fuzzy search query searches for character sequences that are not only the same but similar to the query term https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=methods-fuzzy-search