[Feature]: Searchtype similar

[patrick-skowronek]

General Summary

Currently on Project has the requirement for a similar type. So an autocomplete and string input would not only be strict on equals not would have similar.

@timakro what are your thoughts?

Is this Breaking?

No

[timakro]

Are you thinking a kind of text similarity measure like Levenshtein distance? Would be interesting to know more about the use case.

[patrick-skowronek]

Unfortunately not, as in SQL LIKE '%L%'; Expression.

[timakro]

A good name might be "substring search". I can see how this applies to the string input but how would it work with the autocomplete input? We already have substring search in lens and the AST only contains the valid codes defined in the catalogue.

[patrick-skowronek]

That is a good name! Lens has a string search where the resulting AST is equal. I would like to add then the keyword like. In my example, the "L" could be a string from the input or it could be one element from the autocomplete. The operand is the important thing to change.