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starman1979
starman1979

Reputation: 1064

Does GAE Search API do spell checks

I'm talking about this API:

https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/java/search/

Does it allow spell checks? For example: if I create an index of documents, and in those documents I have words like "iphone", "android", etc. If I search for "iphoen" instead can it still return the correct results?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 45

Answers (2)

sulimmesh
sulimmesh

Reputation: 763

No, it will not do this. It does direct text matching. Taken from the link you provided:

The simplest query, sometimes called a "global search" is a string that contains only field values. This search uses a string that searches for documents that contain the words "rose" and "water":

index.search("rose water");

Based on this, it's implied reasonably well that it will not do fuzzy matches for you. However, you could write an extension class that takes a string and tests variants against the Search API. You could then return any successful queries and report the fuzzy match. In this way, your class would take "ipohne" and eventually try "iphone" and return a successful query.

Upvotes: 0

Andrei Volgin
Andrei Volgin

Reputation: 41089

No, it cannot. It is just an index - what you put it, you get back.

You need to implement your own logic for spelling errors. If a user searches for "iphoen", you either return all results for "iphoen" and suggest "iphone" query instead, or, if you are very confident that a search term was mis-spelled, do a search for "iphone" right away and ask a user if a "iphoen" should be used. This is how Google search works. This is, obviously, not a trivial task.

Upvotes: 1

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