feat!: Add substring search support for more fields

docs/src/content/docs/reference/helm-chart-config.mdx

@@ -561,6 +561,16 @@ Each organism object has the following fields:
                 probably `generateIndex` should be true.
             </td>
         </tr>
+        <tr>
+            <td>`enableSubstringSearch`</td>
+            <td>Boolean</td>
+            <td></td>
+            <td>
+                If true, search results will contain results that contain the given value as a substring.
+                If false (the default), only exact matches will be returned.
+                This only works for string fields, and you cannot also enable `autocomplete`.
+            </td>
+        </tr>
         <tr>
             <td>`initiallyVisible`</td>
             <td>Boolean</td>

kubernetes/loculus/templates/_common-metadata.tpl

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ fields:
     displayName: Submission ID
     type: string
     header: Submission details
+    enableSubstringSearch: true
   - name: isRevocation
     type: boolean
     notSearchable: true
@@ -182,6 +183,9 @@ organisms:
   {{- if .autocomplete }}
   autocomplete: {{ .autocomplete }}
   {{- end }}
+  {{- if .enableSubstringSearch }}
+  substringSearch: {{ .enableSubstringSearch }}
+  {{- end}}
   {{- if .notSearchable }}
   notSearchable: {{ .notSearchable }}
   {{- end }}

kubernetes/loculus/templates/_siloDatabaseConfig.tpl

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
   {{- if .generateIndex }}
   generateIndex: {{ .generateIndex }}
   {{- end }}
-  {{- if eq .type "authors" }}
+  {{- if .enableSubstringSearch }}
   lapisAllowsRegexSearch: true
   {{- end }}
 {{- end }}

kubernetes/loculus/values.yaml

@@ -451,10 +451,12 @@ defaultOrganismConfig: &defaultOrganismConfig
         displayName: Isolate name
         header: Sample details
         ingest: ncbiIsolateName
+        enableSubstringSearch: true
       - name: authors
         displayName: Authors
         type: authors
         header: Authors
+        enableSubstringSearch: true
         truncateColumnDisplayTo: 15
         ingest: ncbiSubmitterNames
         preprocessing:
@@ -463,8 +465,7 @@ defaultOrganismConfig: &defaultOrganismConfig
             authors: authors
       - name: authorAffiliations
         displayName: Author affiliations
-        generateIndex: true
-        autocomplete: true
+        enableSubstringSearch: true
         truncateColumnDisplayTo: 15
         header: Authors
         ingest: ncbiSubmitterAffiliation

website/src/types/config.ts

@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ export const metadata = z.object({
     hideOnSequenceDetailsPage: z.boolean().optional(),
     header: z.string().optional(),
     rangeSearch: z.boolean().optional(),
+    substringSearch: z.boolean().optional(),
 });
 
 export const inputField = z.object({

website/src/utils/search.ts

@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ export const getLapisSearchParameters = (
         Object.entries(fieldValues).filter(([, value]) => value !== undefined && value !== ''),
     );
     for (const field of expandedSchema) {
-        if (field.type === 'authors' && sequenceFilters[field.name] !== undefined) {
+        if (field.substringSearch === true && sequenceFilters[field.name] !== undefined) {
             sequenceFilters[field.name.concat('.regex')] = makeCaseInsensitiveLiteralSubstringRegex(
                 sequenceFilters[field.name],
             );