Exposing the search function

[ratrakone]

hi, i'm building a datatable and for global search i'm using fuse as designed. creating the class and making a list of options.
however for individual column filters i need something different for each type.
i'd love to use fuse comparing function for the text col type, but i don't want to be constructing the whole class and so on.

the best fit would be to just have a function that could take two strings and return true/false based on whether threshold is passed.

would this be trivial for maintainer to implement?

if no and i were to implement it, would such PR be merged?

thanks for answer.

[jsg2021]

Another use case for the exposed comparator would be to process stream objects. I'm pulling items out of a database, and it would be nice not to need to store the entire set, just the matches.

[krisk]

Hey, sorry for the late reply.

I've added a static Fuse.match() method that does exactly this — matches a pattern against a single string without needing to construct a full Fuse instance:

import Fuse from 'fuse.js'

const { isMatch, score } = Fuse.match('apple', 'Paul likes apples')
// { isMatch: true, score: 0.11 }

// With options
Fuse.match('apple', 'apple pie', { includeMatches: true })
// { isMatch: true, score: 0, indices: [[0, 4]] }

All the usual options (threshold, isCaseSensitive, minMatchCharLength, etc.) are supported.

This is now on main.