Unescaping query string

[Phui Hock]

Hi,
Suppose that user keys in "author:test" and the resulting GET request
is "/search/articles/?q=author%3Atest1", how can I get Haystack to
pass 'author:test' unescaped to solr?

The following is what I get from solr's log (and the interesting bit
is q=author\:test1):
INFO: [] webapp=/solr path=/select/ params={hl.fragsize=200&fl=*
+score&start=0&q=author\:test1&wt=json&fq=django_ct:
(article.article)&hl=true&rows=0} hits=0 status=0 QTime=2

It looks to me like somewhere in Haystack escapes the query before
passing it to solr backend, but I'm seemingly lost and I couldn't
figure out where and how Haystack did it.

[Daniel Lindsley]

Phui,

Right now, the form is doing
``SearchQuerySet().auto_query(self.cleaned_data['q'])``, which does
the escaping. You can do
``SearchQuerySet().filter(content=self.cleaned_data['q'])`` to pass it
along unescaped, though you'd be better off doing
``SearchQuerySet().filter(author='test1')`` if you can get just the
author name from the user.

Daniel

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[Phui Hock]

On May 4, 12:52 am, Daniel Lindsley <polarc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Phui,
>
>     Right now, the form is doing
> ``SearchQuerySet().auto_query(self.cleaned_data['q'])``, which does
> the escaping. You can do
> ``SearchQuerySet().filter(content=self.cleaned_data['q'])`` to pass it
> along unescaped, though you'd be better off doing
> ``SearchQuerySet().filter(author='test1')`` if you can get just the
> author name from the user.

Ah, perfect! Thanks alot!