Simple search in Django

Question

I have a really simple blog application and I want to add a really simple search feature to it.

There are 3 key fields to my model.

class BlogPost(models         


        

Answer 1

If you want a really simple search you can use icontains lookup and Q object:

from django.db.models import Q
results = BlogPost.objects.filter(Q(title__icontains=your_search_query) | Q(intro__icontains=your_search_query) | Q(content__icontains=your_search_query))

You should also note that Haystack doesn't have to be "hideously complicated". You can set up haystack with Whoosh backend in less then 15 minutes.

Update 2016: In version 1.10 Django added a full text search support (PostgreSQL only). An answer to the original question using the new module might look something like this:

from django.contrib.postgres.search import SearchVector

results = BlogPost.objects.annotate(
    search=SearchVector('title', 'intro', 'content'),
).filter(search=your_search_query)

The new full text search module contains a lot more features (for example sorting by relevancy), you can read about them in the documentation.