Mixing fuzzy and exact search

[jnsprnw]

Let’s say I have the following array:

[
  {
    "title": "Old Man's War",
    "color": "red"
  },
  {
    "title": "The Lock Artist",
    "color": "red"
  },
  {
    "title": "HTML5",
    "color": "blue"
  }
]

The user can type a term for fuzzy searching within the title, but also a dropdown to select the exact color.
Should I filter the array by color; create a new Fuse instance with the filtered array; and then do the fuzzy search? Not sure if that’s the best thing performance-wise if I do that every time a new color is selected from the dropdown.

Having an API to add/remove items as suggested in #379 might be useful.

[krisk]

As per #411, I'm actually working on logical query expressions, such that you can search like this:

const result = fuse.search({
  $and: [{ author: 'abc' }, { title: 'xyz' }]
})

const result = fuse.search({
  $and: [{ author: 'abc' }, { $or: [{ title: 'nonfic' }, { title: 'html' }] }]
})

From there, you can then mix it with extended searching so you could do exact-match for color:

const result = fuse.search({
  $and: [
    { title: 'old war' }, // fuzzy "old war"
    { color: "'blue"} // exact match for blue
  ]
})

[jnsprnw]

Hey hey,
sorry for using this old issue again. I’m trying to figure out if it’s possible to mix expressions and search terms in the logical query operators you’ve implemented. Something like this:

const result = fuse.search({
  $and: [
    'old war', // fuzzy "old war" in all keys
    { color: "'blue"} // exact match for blue
  ]
})

My goal is to not only search for old war in the title key but in all keys (maybe except color). The code above does not generate any errors, but still does not return any results.

Thanks so much!

[JamesBliss]

@jnsprnw Did you end up figuring this out? I've come up against the same need/want.

[jnsprnw]

Unfortunately not.