Matching Based on Arbitrary Word Order

[prikhi]

Not sure what the best title for this issue is, but here's what I'm trying to do:

I've got a halogen-nselect component with client-side filtering and use this package to highlight search matches in the dropdown items.

I've got an item type with string fields for names & descriptions. I'm using the Fuzzy a type and the match function to search & filter the items. I sort the items by their match distance.

I have some test data with the name Ask my Accountant & description Some long descriptive text about the account..

When I search something like Ask descriptive, the Ask my Accountant item is 3rd in the list & the highlighting for the description is messed up because it tries to match "ask" instead of realizing there's a full match for "descriptive".

What I expected was at least Ask & descriptive both being matched.

I also needed to remove my filtering(I was doingfuzzyMatch.ratio >= 5 % 6, now I do fuzzyMatch.ratio > 0 % 1) because the missed matches were causing the accounts to drop off my list.

Is there a better way for me to tackle this or does it require changes to the library? I was thinking of maybe splitting the search string into a list of words, running match on each word, & figuring out some way of merging all the Fuzzy a or FuzzyStrresults.

Here's my matching code

[davezuch]

Hey @prikhi! Thanks for opening an issue. That's pretty odd, descriptive should be highlighted. Any chance you can provide me with some sample data to reproduce this?

[prikhi]

Yep, here's a full dump of the accounts being used:

[(AccountData { accountType: FixedAsset, description: "", id: 246, name: "Accumulated Depreciation" }),(AccountData { accountType: Expense, description: "", id: 233, name: "Advertising and Promotion" }),(AccountData { accountType: Expense, description: "", id: 224, name: "Another Nested 2" }),(AccountData { accountType: OtherExpense, description: "Some long descriptive text about the account.", id: 214, name: "Ask My Accountant" }),(AccountData { accountType: Expense, description: "", id: 232, name: "Automobile Expense" }),(AccountData { accountType: Expense, description: "", id: 231, name: "Bank Service Charges" }),(AccountData { accountType: Expense, description: "", id: 230, name: "Computer and Internet Expenses" }),(AccountData { accountType: Expense, description: "", id: 229, name: "Depreciation Expense" }),(AccountData { accountType: FixedAsset, description: "", id: 245, name: "Furniture and Equipment" }),(AccountData { accountType: Expense, description: "", id: 228, name: "Insurance Expense" }),(AccountData { accountType: Expense, description: "", id: 227, name: "Interest Expense" }),(AccountData { accountType: Expense, description: "", id: 226, name: "Janitorial Expense" }),(AccountData { accountType: Expense, description: "", id: 225, name: "Meals and Entertainment" }),(AccountData { accountType: Income, description: "", id: 236, name: "Merchandise Sales" }),(AccountData { accountType: CostOfGoodsSold, description: "", id: 234, name: "Merchant Account Fees" }),(AccountData { accountType: Expense, description: "", id: 223, name: "Nested Test" }),(AccountData { accountType: Expense, description: "", id: 222, name: "Office Supplies" }),(AccountData { accountType: Equity, description: "", id: 242, name: "Opening Balance Equity" }),(AccountData { accountType: Equity, description: "", id: 241, name: "Partner 1 Draws" }),(AccountData { accountType: Equity, description: "", id: 240, name: "Partner 1 Equity" }),(AccountData { accountType: Equity, description: "", id: 239, name: "Partner 2 Draws" }),(AccountData { accountType: Equity, description: "", id: 238, name: "Partner 2 Equity" }),(AccountData { accountType: Expense, description: "", id: 221, name: "Payroll Expenses" }),(AccountData { accountType: OtherCurrentLiability, description: "", id: 243, name: "Payroll Liabilities" }),(AccountData { accountType: Expense, description: "", id: 220, name: "Professional Fees" }),(AccountData { accountType: Expense, description: "", id: 219, name: "Rent Expense" }),(AccountData { accountType: Expense, description: "", id: 218, name: "Repairs and Maintenance" }),(AccountData { accountType: Equity, description: "", id: 237, name: "Retained Earnings" }),(AccountData { accountType: Income, description: "", id: 235, name: "Sales Discounts" }),(AccountData { accountType: OtherAsset, description: "", id: 244, name: "Security Deposits Asset" }),(AccountData { accountType: Expense, description: "", id: 217, name: "Telephone Expense" }),(AccountData { accountType: Expense, description: "", id: 216, name: "Uniforms" }),(AccountData { accountType: Expense, description: "", id: 215, name: "Utilities" })]

I can drill it down to just the accounts you see in the dropdown if you'd like.