id summary reporter owner description type status component version severity resolution keywords cc stage has_patch needs_docs needs_tests needs_better_patch easy ui_ux 11220 __similar in filter Filip Gruszczyński nobody "I would like to propose a new filtering method for char fields, that could be used instead of {{{ __exact }}} or {{{ __iexact. __similar }}} would return models, which field is similar to the given string. Example use case looks like this: user wants to search for some term, so we try to find objects, that satisfy his query. {{{ objects = Klass.objects.filter(name__iexact=user_term) if objects.count() > 0: return render_to_response('found.html', {'objects': 'objects'}) else: names = Klass.objects.filter(name__similar=user_term).values('name') return render_to_response('did_you_mean.html', {'names': names}) }}} If he inputs name, that can't be found, we try to find to some suggestions, like Google does. I don't really know, if databases support this kind of operations. Could this be done? If it can be done and someone could point me, where I should start, I could try to create a patch." closed Uncategorized 1.0 wontfix Unreviewed 0 0 0 0 0 0