Add support for fuzzy search function within $filter, etc.

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    • Type: New Feature
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • Priority: Major
    • V4.02
    • Affects Version/s: V4.01_OS
    • Component/s: Protocol, URL Conventions
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      Introduce a new string function, "search", which does a content search on the first parameter for the search text provided by the second parameter.  The second parameter can support the same syntax as the $search query option.

       

      Alternative names: "fuzzyMatch", "fuzzySearch", "contentMatch", "contentSearch"

       

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      Introduce a new string function, "search", which does a content search on the first parameter for the search text provided by the second parameter.  The second parameter can support the same syntax as the $search query option.   Alternative names: "fuzzyMatch", "fuzzySearch", "contentMatch", "contentSearch"  

      The $search functionality allows fuzzy searching across all properties, and is useful for finding entities that have something to do with a particular search term.

      However, some engines may support content search on a particular field, and customers may want to combine such content searches with other predicates, for example:

      /users?$filter=address/state eq 'WA' or search(jobTitle,'smith')

      Note:

      1) They specifically want job titles related to a "smith" (woodsmith, ironsmith, etc.), not last names related to "smith"
      2) They want to logically "OR" this condition with other conditions within the $filter clause.

      They can't do either #1 or #2 with $search today.

            Assignee:
            Michael Pizzo (Inactive)
            Reporter:
            Michael Pizzo (Inactive)
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