Hi Djangoers! I've been interested in a search feature in Django for some time now. I did some research lately and found the following posts about it:
* Search Functionality http://tinyurl.com/28talc * Search options http://tinyurl.com/2xuno3 * How to integrate a search engine in a Django site? http://tinyurl.com/ypor32 * Search feature http://tinyurl.com/yvv289 I've found that all of those solutions require some additional software (such as Lucene, for instance). I was thinking about something that would be pure Django/Python code, that would work like django.contrib.comments. I've recently written the simplest code I could, to do the job: index objects and then allow to search them, returning their titles and absolute URLs. I've tried to make it as general as possible. My implementation is inspired (or stolen from ;-) ) django.contrib.comments. It can index any class of objects. Classes to be indexed need to implement two methods: get_search_text() and get_absolute_url() Here's an example code for indexing objects: from myapp.models import MyClass from django.contrib.search.models import Keyword from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType ct = ContentType.objects.get_for_model(MyClass) object_id = 1 Keyword.objects.index_object(ct, object_id) ...and for searching: from django.contrib.search.models import KeywordManager from django.contrib.contenttypes.models import ContentType from myapp.models import MyClass ct = ContentType.objects.get_for_model(MyClass) km = KeywordManager() result = km.search(ct, "Monty Python") print result [{'url': '/path/object/', 'preview': 'preview of the object content', 'title': 'Object title' }, { ... }, ... ] Results are a list of dictionaries where each dictionary has fields: url, preview and title. The code is available from: http://code.blizinski.pl/django-search/ This is very immature code which I've put together last few days, but it does the job and I think it could be useful for other people too. It's biggest strength is that it's enough to put few files into the django/contrib directory and run syncdb -- it's ready to go. All comments are very welcome! Maciej Bliziński --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
