Partial matching with userInput in Vespa

Question

I'm trying to get partial matching with userInput().

With a document title "toucan", I tried:

• "toucan" (works)
• "touca" (no results)
• "touca*" (no results)

The query: ([{"prefix":true}]userInput(@query)))

The schema:

fieldset default {
  fields: title, content
}

field title type string {
  indexing: index | summary
}

field content type string {
  indexing: index | summary
}

Answer 1

Prefix matching requires making the field attribute, not index. See https://docs.vespa.ai/en/text-matching-ranking.html#prefix-match