Add basic support for wildcard queries

lib/index.js

@@ -205,6 +205,57 @@ exports.search = utils.toPromise(function (opts, callback) {
   if (typeof stale === 'string') {
     queryOpts.stale = stale;
   }
+  //
+  // Wildcards
+  // 1. Detect if the query term contains an asterisk
+  // 2. Remove keys property from the queryOpts
+  // 3. Perform _search_query with limit (100?)
+  // 4. Match the key with the query term.
+  // 5. If wildcard is in the front, compare last n chars of both strings
+  // 6. If wildcard is in the back, compare first n strings of both strings
+  // 7. If wildcard is in the middle, compare first n and last n of both strings.
+
+  // 1. Split the query terms on '*'. Are there any query terms with a wildcard?
+  // ＊
+  var wildcardTerms = queryTerms.filter(function(queryTerm) {
+    let sections = queryTerm.split('*');
+    // Term needs to contain something other than '*'.
+    return sections.length > 1 && sections.filter((s) => s.length > 0 ).length > 0;
+  })
+  var hasWildCard = wildcardTerms.length > 0;
+
+  if (hasWildCard) {
+    delete queryOpts.keys;
+    // For v0 let's not bother setting a limit.
+    return pouch._search_query(mapFun, queryOpts).then(function (res) {
+      return res.rows.filter(function(d) {
+        var text = d.key.substring(1),
+            term = wildcardTerms[0],
+            sections = term.split("*");
+        return matchWildcard(term, sections, text);
+      });
+    // Copied from step 3 below.
+    }).then(function (rows) {
+      total_rows = rows.length;
+      // filter before fetching docs or applying highlighting
+      // for a slight optimization, since for now we've only fetched ids/scores
+      return (typeof limit === 'number' && limit >= 0) ?
+        rows.slice(skip, skip + limit) : skip > 0 ? rows.slice(skip) : rows;
+    }).then(function (rows) {
+      if (includeDocs) {
+        return applyIncludeDocs(pouch, rows);
+      }
+      return rows;
+    }).then(function (rows) {
+      if (highlighting) {
+        return applyHighlighting(pouch, opts, rows, fieldBoosts, docIdsToFieldsToQueryTerms);
+      }
+      return rows;
+
+    }).then(function (rows) {
+      callback(null, {total_rows: total_rows, rows: rows});
+    });
+  }
 
   // search algorithm, basically classic TF-IDF
   //
@@ -453,3 +504,29 @@ function isFiltered(doc, filter, db) {
 if (typeof PouchDB !== 'undefined') {
   PouchDB.plugin(exports);
 }
+
+function matchWildcard(term, sections, text) {
+  // Supports *oobar foo*ar fooba*
+  // ;; TODO: Support *ooba*
+  // var sections = term.split("*");
+  if (term[0] === '*' && term[term.length - 1] === '*' && sections.length === 3) {
+    var matchable = sections[1],
+        hasMatch = false;
+    for (var i = 0, len = text.length - matchable.length; i < len; i++) {
+      if (text.substring(i, i + matchable.length) === matchable) {
+        hasMatch = true;
+        break;
+      }
+    }
+    return hasMatch;
+  } else if (sections.length > 2) {
+    return false;
+  } else {
+    var front = sections[0],
+        back  = sections[1];
+    // TODO Don't need to check both here.
+    var matchFront = text.substring(0, front.length) === front;
+    var matchBack = text.substring(text.length - back.length) === back;
+    return matchFront && matchBack;
+  }
+}

test/test.js

@@ -49,6 +49,51 @@ function tests(dbName, dbType) {
 
   var db;
 
+  describe('wildcard matching', function() {
+    this.timeout(30000);
+
+    beforeEach(function () {
+      db = new Pouch(dbName);
+      return db;
+    });
+    afterEach(function () {
+      return db.destroy();
+    });
+
+    var wildcardSearch = function({query, text}, shouldFind) {
+      return db.bulkDocs({docs: {text: 'foobar'}}).then(function () {
+        var opts = {
+          fields: ['text'],
+          query: query
+        };
+        return db.search(opts);
+      }).then(function (res) {
+        if (shouldFind) {
+          res.rows.length.should.equal(1);
+        } else {
+          res.rows.length.should.equal(0);
+        }
+      });
+    };
+
+    it ('matches leading wildcards', function() {
+      wildcardSearch({query: '*oobar', text: 'foobar'}, true);
+      wildcardSearch({query: '*bar',   text: 'foobar'}, true);
+    });
+    it ('matches trailing wildcards', function() {
+      wildcardSearch({query: 'fooba*', text: 'foobar'}, true);
+      wildcardSearch({query: 'foo*',   text: 'foobar'}, true);
+    });
+    it ('matches center wildcards', function() {
+      wildcardSearch({query: 'foo*ar', text: 'foobar'}, true);
+      wildcardSearch({query: 'foo*ar', text: 'foo'},    false);
+    });
+    it ('matches surrounding wildcards', function() {
+      wildcardSearch({query: '*ooba*', text: 'foobar'}, true);
+      wildcardSearch({query: '*oob*',  text: 'foobar'}, true);
+    });
+  });
+
   describe(dbType + ': search test suite', function () {
     this.timeout(30000);