Fulltext on AppEngine Java . Searching substring (SDK 1.6.6)

Question

Searching for document containing a word e.g. London works. How do i define a search for a documents with (substring):

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 01 '12 at 06:28

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Substring search is not supported.

answered Jun 01 '12 at 06:28

Peter McKenzie

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:29

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App Engine's full text search API does not support substring matching.

However you can invent a workaround for this. See this answer for a Python-based solution that should translate easily to Java.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:29

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answered Jun 08 '12 at 15:20

Nick Farina

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