Wildcards for page names

[s7eph4n]

I need to search page names using wildcards, e.g. something like [[File:Foo+]] or [[~File:Foo*.pdf]]. I could easily add a special property has page name of type Text or File to SemanticExtraSpecialProperties, but how hard would it be to directly add this ability to SMW?

[mwjames]

I need to search page names using wildcards, e.g. something like [[File:Foo+]]

This would entail a string match (pages are internally handled as s_id/o_id) therefore we would need to match against a string representation which is currently done by comparing against the sortkey field which does not contain any namespace prefixes.

What about a conjunction such as [[File:+]] [[~Foo*]]?

but how hard would it be to directly add this ability directly to SMW?

The QueryParser would need to translate [[File:Foo+]] into something like [[File:+]] [[~Foo*]].

[s7eph4n]

The number of namespaces is usually very limited, so the conjunction solution should not be a problem. (If I need to query more than one namespace I could easily put them in a subquery.)

[mwjames]

What about a conjunction such as [[File:+]] [[~Foo*]]?

Expected to be solved and addressed with #1847.