Rationale behind matchingStrategy parameter in facet-search

[ellnix]

Hello,

I was looking at integrating the new facet-search feature in meilisearch-ruby, and looking at the API documentation for it I saw that it accepts matchingStrategy as a parameter.

Down the line in that documentation it says that multi-word facets are not supported and that only the first word is considered. Applying my understanding of matchingStrategy in regular search, if I have a "Jane Austen" facet with the matchingStrategy set to "last", searching for "Jane Doe" should search for "Jane Doe" (and find nothing) and then search for "Jane" (and find "Jane Austen").

Does this happen because of the lack of support for multi word facets? Or is it because there is no limit parameter in facet-search? If so, what effect does matchingStrategy have on a call to facet-search, if any?

The existing SDKs that have implemented wrappers around facet-search and added tests for them do not test this parameter at all:
meilisearch-python (yes there is a space in the filename and yes it bothers me)
meilisearch-js
meilisearch-dart
meilisearch-php

[ellnix]

Nevermind, I completely misunderstood the parameters to this method, I understand it now.
Please feel free to delete.