[Photon] Phonetic searches

[Sarah Hoffmann]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 10:19:53PM -0400, Geneviève Bastien via Photon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to be able to do phonetic searches to the openstreetmap data in
> photon. From what I understand, I would need to modify the
> index_settings.json to add phonetic filters and analyzers. But an additional
> dependency seems to be needed for it. But I only found this outdated maven
> dependency [1], which does not work with the 5.6.16. Is there anywhere else
> those packages have moved to or am I missing something?
> 
> Has anyone managed to add support for phonetic searches in Photon?

ES has changed the plugin installation mechanism after version 2. See
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/plugins/5.6/analysis-phonetic.html
for instructions on how to download it.

I would have expected that you can handle it pretty much in a similar
way as the lang-painless plugin but have never tried.

Sarah