no fuzzy matching?

[snacktavish]

It appears that the 'exact' flag in otindex calls may not be doing anything...

``` curl -X POST https://api.opentreeoflife.org/v3/studies/find_studies -H "content-type:application/json" -d '{"property":"ot:focalCladeOTTTaxonName","value":"Ilex", "exact":false, "verbose": false}'````
returns {"matched_studies": [{"ot:studyId": "ot_1984"}, {"ot:studyId": "pg_2827"}]}

curl -X POST https://api.opentreeoflife.org/v3/studies/find_studies -H "content-type:application/json" -d '{"property":"ot:focalCladeOTTTaxonName","value":"Ilix", "exact":false, "verbose": false}'

but a one letter change, or capitalization change, returns nothing.

[mtholder]

I think that it doesn't work well for short names. Otherwise the breath first search gets too slow. But @bredelings may know better

[snacktavish]

This is all in otindex - I did try with longer names and failed as well.
But I think we might not do anything with the 'exact' parameter at all!

e.g.

otindex/otindex/views.py

Line 118 in cdaa0a1

resultlist = qs.query_studies(verbose,property_type,property_value)

[bredelings]

That's interesting -- what would otindex used to do fuzzy matching? Is there a python module?