How to integrate a search engine in a Django site?

[Dado]

Does anybody have any experience in integrating a search engine that
can do full-text search into a Django web site? Perhaps, Lupy or
pyLucene, or something SQL-based like MySQL or PostGres full-text
search queries? Of course the frontend should be a simple search box
where users can input anything from a set of simple words to more
complex queries (like "title:apple* and published:1995").

I would appreciate any input.

Dado

[Ian Holsman]

It isn't *exactly* what you want,
but one of the developers (hugo) has implemented some search
functionality described here:
https://simon.bofh.ms/cgi-bin/trac-django-projects.cgi/wiki/AbstractSearching

I've also modified one of his wrappers to 'improve' the generic list
object to allow basic filtering.
http://svn.zilbo.com/svn/django/common/filter/views/filter.py

hope this helps

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[Dado]

Thanx for the link!!! However, it seems like I cannot search across
different models.... even if they have the same attributes that I want
to search.

Dado

[hugo]

>Thanx for the link!!! However, it seems like I cannot search across
>different models.... even if they have the same attributes that I want
>to search.

My abstract searching stuff (Ian gave the link) does allow searching
over different models - you just add multiple search definitions. The
models even don't need to have the same fields, as you can describe
what fields to use in every search definition.

A sample search definition file for a larger project is in the SVN
repository of my CMS project:

https://simon.bofh.ms/cgi-bin/trac-django-projects.cgi/file/cms/trunk/apps/cms/search.py

It should work with Django trunk, as it doesn't have any translations.
But it might be that some i18n-related dependency crept in, I mostly
run projects from the i18n branch. And documentatin is a bit sparse
currently, you are mostly down to reading the comments and docstrings
and the bit on the wiki (and digging through the CmsProject source
should help, too).

bye, Georg