[Autofill/Autocomplete Feature] Substring matching instead of prefix matching.

components/autofill/core/common/autofill_util.h

Index: components/autofill/core/common/autofill_util.h
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+// Copyright 2015 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
+// found in the LICENSE file.
+
+#ifndef COMPONENTS_AUTOFILL_CORE_COMMON_AUTOFILL_UTIL_H_
+#define COMPONENTS_AUTOFILL_CORE_COMMON_AUTOFILL_UTIL_H_
+
+#include "base/strings/string16.h"
+
+namespace autofill {
+
+// Returns true when command line switch |kEnableSuggestionsWithSubstringMatch|
+// is on.
+bool IsFeatureSubstringMatchEnabled();
+
+// Returns true if the |field_contents| prefixes any of the |suggestion| tokens
+// separated by characters " .,-_@".
+bool ContainsTokenThatStartsWith(const base::string16& suggestion,
+                                 const base::string16& field_contents,
+                                 bool case_sensitive);
+
+// Finds if the |field_contents| prefixes any of the |suggestion| tokens,
+// separated by characters " .,-_@". Returns the start position of the text
+// selection in the field; base::string16::npos otherwise. "preview-on-hover"
+// feature is one such use case where |field_contents| may not match
+// |suggestion|.
+size_t GetTextSelectionStart(const base::string16& suggestion,
+                             const base::string16& field_contents,
+                             bool case_sensitive);
+
+// Case insensitive version for above function.
+size_t GetTextSelectionStart(const base::string16& suggestion,

[please use gerrit instead, 2015/07/06 20:15:18]

Let's not overload functions. This opens a can of warms. That is, please delete
this function. Use the above function everywhere.

https://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.html#Function_Ove...

[Pritam Nikam, 2015/07/07 16:18:32]

Done.

+                             const base::string16& field_contents);
+
+}  // namespace autofill
+
+#endif  // COMPONENTS_AUTOFILL_CORE_COMMON_AUTOFILL_UTIL_H_