Simple way to add ranked fuzzy matching search. For when you have up to a few thousand products, locations or similar and want to add a search that most users will see as smart, with minimal work. using SimplifiedSearch; IList<Country> matches = await listOfCountries.SimplifiedSearchAsync("thaiwan", x => x.CountryName); foreach (var country in matches) Console.WriteLine(country.CountryName); // output: // Taiwan // Thailand
Get Started
$ dotnet add package SimplifiedSearchReadme
See Acknowledgements for additional license information covering parts of the project.
SimplifiedSearch
Simple way to add ranked fuzzy matching search.
For when you have up to a few thousand products, locations or similar and want to add a search that most users will see as smart, with minimal work.
Intended use case
Searching through lists of short phrases like country names or the subject line in emails.
.NET support
Tested with: NETCOREAPP3.1, NET5.0, NET6.0
Quickstart
Install
PM> Install-Package SimplifiedSearch
Code
Use extension method .SimplifiedSearchAsync(searchTerm, propertyToSearchLambda).
propertyToSearchLambda is optional. When missing, all properties will be searched (or the value, if the value is string, Enum, int, etc).
using SimplifiedSearch;
IList<Country> countries = GetListOfCountries();
IList<Country> matches = await countries.SimplifiedSearchAsync("thaiwan", x => x.CountryName);
foreach (var country in matches)
{
Console.WriteLine(country.CountryName);
}
// output:
// Taiwan
// Thailand
Acknowledgements
https://github.com/apache/lucenenet
Lucenenet is the main inspiration for SimplifiedSearch.
SimplifiedSearch was started with the goal of delivering similar results to a spesific setup of Lucene analyzer and query.
https://github.com/ninjanye/SearchExtensions
SimplifiedSearch was inspired by SearchExtensions, and delivers a simpler (and less configurable) experience.