Question

I am trying to use django-haystack (been around 2 days now), and I have got the basic Getting Started example working and it looks very impressive. I would now like to try the autocomplete function on haystack.

http://readthedocs.org/docs/django-haystack/en/v1.2.4/autocomplete.html

The first part seems fine: “Setting up the data” seems simple enough. However, I am not sure where the “Performing the Query” needs to be written: i.e in which view should I include:

from haystack.query import SearchQuerySet
sqs = SearchQuerySet().filter(content_auto=request.GET.get('q', ''))

My current urls.py is simple and set up as follows:

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    # Examples:
    ('^hello/$', hello),
    (r'^$', hello), 
    (r'^search/', include('haystack.urls')),
    # url(r'^$', 'mysite.views.home', name='home'),
    # url(r'^mysite/', include('mysite.foo.urls')),

    # Uncomment the admin/doc line below to enable admin documentation:
    #url(r'^admin/doc/', include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls')),

    # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin:
    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
)

Looking at the following blog:

http://tech.agilitynerd.com/haystack-search-result-ordering-and-pre-rende

I would like to have something like:

url(r'^search/', SearchView(load_all=False,searchqueryset=sqs),name='haystack_search'), 

but, where should the sqs be specified? in the urls.py or views.py? I tried both, but they give me a name error “request” not found on the sqs statement.

Answer 1

Usually this would be in your own haystack urls, haystack.urls in your current urls.py is pointing to the default urls. Create a file haystack_urls.py and in your urls.py add it e.g.

url(r'^search/', include('yourproject.haystack_urls')),

in that file you can then add your custom code e.g.

from haystack.views import SearchView
from haystack.query import SearchQuerySet

sqs = SearchQuerySet() # edit remove line that was incorret

urlpatterns = patterns('haystack.views',
    url(r'^&', SearchView(load_all=False,searchqueryset=sqs),name='haystack_search'), 
)

to wrap a view for request try something like

class SearchWithRequest(SearchView):

    __name__ = 'SearchWithRequest'

    def build_form(self, form_kwargs=None):
        if form_kwargs is None:
            form_kwargs = {}

        if self.searchqueryset is None:
            sqs = SearchQuerySet().filter(content_auto=self.request.GET.get('q', ''))
            form_kwargs['searchqueryset'] = sqs

        return super(SearchWithRequest, self).build_form(form_kwargs)