Question

I am trying to implement a djapian based full text search for searching user
profiles in my django site. I basically followed the following steps to build the
indexes:

• Updated the model Profile to add the djapian indexer.
• Ran python manage.py index --rebuild to rebuild the indexes.

However when I try to search using the Profile indexer using:

Profile.indexer.search("query")

it does not give me any results. I do not receive any errors.

Can someone help me with this? I am a newbie w.r.t. django+djapian.

—Update 06/29/09
My indexer definition lives in models.py and is as follows:

class Profile(models.Model):
        user = models.ForeignKey(User, unique=True, verbose_name=('user'))
        name = models.CharField(('name'), max_length=50, null=True, blank=True)
        about = models.TextField(('about'), null=True, blank=True)
        institution = models.CharField(('institution'),max_length=100,null=True, blank=True)
        location = models.CharField(_('location'), max_length=40, null=True, blank=True)
        website = models.URLField(_('website'), null=True, blank=True, verify_exists=False)
        def unicode(self):
            return self.user.username
        def get_absolute_url(self):
            return ('profile_detail', None, {'username': self.user.username})
        get_absolute_url = models.permalink(get_absolute_url)
        class Meta:
            verbose_name = _('profile')
            verbose_name_plural = _('profiles')


class ProfileIndexer(djapian.Indexer):
        fields = ['name', 'about', 'institution','location']
        tags = [ ('name','name'),('about','about'),('institution','institution'),('location','location')]

djapian.add_index(Profile,ProfileIndexer,attach_as = 'indexer')

        
												

Answer 1

It’s possible that all you are missing is running

Profile.indexer.update()

at the end of models.py (you only have to do this once).

Now, I might be using an older version of Djapian than you but the following seem to work for me (end of models.py):

profile_indexer = djapian.Indexer(
    model=Profile,
    fields=[..., ...],
    tags=[(..., ...), (..., ...)]
)
# Run once and then comment out.
Profile.indexer.update()