View How the SearchIndex "template" (_text.txt) file renders

[Joe Jasinski]

Hi all, 

I'm creating some search indexes, but I'm trying to determine if I'm doing it right and am including the correct fields.  Is there a way to view how the indexes would render kind of like viewing a Django template.... for the aim of testing and debugging?  I'm doing a complex many to many query in the template, and want to make sure it's rendering correctly. 

I'm using a Whoosh search backend with django-haystack 2.0.0-beta.  

# templates/search/indexes/core/product_text.txt

{{ object.id }}

{{ object.name }}

{{ object.subcategory }}

{{ object.description }}

{% for cp in object.categoryproduct_set.all %}

  {{ cp.category }}

{% endfor %}

[Stephen Burrows]

One option would be to manually render the template. From a shell:

>>> from django.template import loader, Context

>>> from myapp.models import MyModel

>>> t = loader.get_template('search/indexes/core/product_text.txt')

>>> c = Context({'object': MyModel.objects.get(pk=1)})

>>> t.render(c)