From 27d1b03c3c6f3fd53bc979ef2e1ba835ed8a12c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tris Forster <tris@tfconsulting.com.au>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 11:02:55 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] Added fuzzy matching

---
 app/library/indexer/whoosh.py | 23 +++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/app/library/indexer/whoosh.py b/app/library/indexer/whoosh.py
index fad6cd7..dde065f 100644
--- a/app/library/indexer/whoosh.py
+++ b/app/library/indexer/whoosh.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ from whoosh.analysis import StemmingAnalyzer, CharsetFilter
 from whoosh.support.charset import accent_map
 from whoosh.fields import Schema, TEXT, KEYWORD, NUMERIC
 from whoosh.qparser import QueryParser
-from whoosh.query import Term, NullQuery
+from whoosh.query import Term, NullQuery, Prefix, FuzzyTerm
 
 
 from typing import Any
@@ -61,20 +61,27 @@ def search(
     pagesize: int = 20,
 ) -> tuple[list[dict], dict[str, Any]]:
     meta = {}
+    query = query.lower()
 
     qp = QueryParser("text", schema=schema)
-    q = qp.parse(query.lower())
-    meta["query"] = str(q)
+    q = qp.parse(query)
 
-    terms = NullQuery
+    limit = NullQuery
     for c in collections:
-        terms = terms | Term("collection", c)
-    q = q & terms
+        limit |= Term("collection", c)
+    print(limit)
 
     hits = []
     ix = get_index()
     with ix.searcher() as searcher:
-        results = searcher.search_page(q, page, pagesize)
+        results = searcher.search_page(q & limit, page, pagesize)
+
+        # if no results, do a prefix search
+        if results.results.is_empty():
+            qp.termclass = Prefix
+            q = qp.parse(query)
+            results = searcher.search_page(q & limit, page, pagesize)
+
         for result in results:
             hits.append(
                 dict(
@@ -85,7 +92,7 @@ def search(
                     collection_id=int(result["collection"]),
                 )
             )
-
+    meta["query"] = str(q & limit)
     meta["total"] = len(results)
 
     return hits, meta