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Haystack search on a many to many field is not working
I'm trying to run a search on a model that has a many to many field, and I want to filter the search using this field.
here is my current code:
search_indexes.py
class ListingInex(indexes.SearchIndex, indexes.Indexable):
text =…
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Django-haystack: rebuild_index fails (haystack.exceptions.SearchFieldError) after adding `content_auto` line needed for autocomplete
I'm trying to implement yielding results for a searching only a part of a word (which is called autocomplete according to the Haystack docs if I'm not mistaken).
Example:
Search "gol"
Result "goldfish"
What have I tried?
I did as asked in step 1 of…
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Django haystack, How to search for a ManyToMany related field?
I've added a MultivaluedField to my index (haystack), I need to search for a ManyToMany related field, but it doesn't work.
The engine is WHOOSH.
This how my index looks like:
class PostIndex(SearchIndex):
text = CharField(document=True,…
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Django Haystack autocompletion on two (multiple) fields
I use haystack 1.2.6 with Whoosh 2.4 and Django 1.3.
Let's say that we have the below model describing an hypothetical post.
Post(models.Model):
title = models.CharField()
body = models.TextField()
We built our post index like this for…
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text searching with whoosh
I am tyring to test Whoosh for text searching and right now a simple contrived example is not working for me. I assume I am missing something here. In the following code I would expect it give a single search result but I get 0 hits.
import…
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Django haystack, priority for some fields in search
I have a model like this:
class MyModel(models.Model):
desc1 = models.TextField(blank=True, default="")
desc2 = models.TextField(blank=True, default="")
I want to search string on fields of this model. Assume these instances of MyModel:
1:…
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taggit and haystack+whoosh
I have a puzzle, my haystack+whoosh works just fine:) I can search through f.e. name of the content. BUT I want to add "taggit" to my core-model and search through tags then I have NO results:// and I don't know why. More precisely I know that…
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MongoDB and Whoosh. Do I need both?
I am working on the project that uses MongoDB and Whoosh. I wonder if the Whoosh is necessary if I can use MongoDB search. I am sure Whoosh was setup in the system for good, but I am not sure I understand right its purpose. Please give me some idea…
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Searching and indexing hyphenated words with Whoosh
I am using Whoosh to index and search a large number of documents, and many of the things I need to search on are hyphenated. Whoosh seems to treat hyphens as a special character of some kind, but for the life of me I can't figure out it's behavior.…
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Django-Haystack + Whoosh - Are misspelling suggestions possible?
I'm using Whoosh and Django-Haystack. I would like to make use of query suggestions for when users mistype words.
e.g. Maybe you meant "unicorn"
Is it necessary to use another search engine? Or can I successfully achieve this with Whoosh?
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How to get all "index data" using whoosh
I use whoosh for full text search ,
and I want to know: how to get all 'index data' that has been added.
This is my main.py:
import cgi,os
from google.appengine.ext import webapp
from google.appengine.ext.webapp import template
from…
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EmptyIndexError - Index 'MAIN' does not exist in
I am testing out Whoosh on a project by following their quickstart guide:
http://whoosh.readthedocs.org/en/latest/quickstart.html
The only difference is, my project is running off of Google App Engine, so instead of:
ix = create_in("indexdir",…
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Character folding for a Django haystack and whoosh
I have a django based app with haystack and whoosh search engine. I want to provide an accent and special character independent search so that I can find indexed data with special characters also by using words without special chars:
Indexed…
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How to use n-grams in whoosh
I'm trying to use n-grams to get "autocomplete-style" searches using Whoosh. Unfortunately I'm a little confused. I have made an index like this:
if not os.path.exists("index"):
os.mkdir("index")
ix = create_in("index", schema)
ix =…
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Django Haystack random errors using Whoosh
I am using django-haystack and Whoosh on my Ubuntu server and finding that certain search queries just raise an error page, and I have no idea why this is happening...
I am using the following ones
Whoosh==2.4.0
django-haystack==1.2.7
And I also…
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