djorm-ext-pgfulltext 0.10

Introduction

Full Text Searching (or just text search) provides the capability to identify natural-language documents that satisfy a query, and optionally to sort them by relevance to the query. The most common type of search is to find all documents containing given query terms and return them in order of their similarity to the query. Notions of query and similarity are very flexible and depend on the specific application. The simplest search considers query as a set of words and similarity as the frequency of query words in the document. (From postgresql documentation.)

How to use it

To use it, you will need to add a new field. Obviously, this is not mandatory, as it can specify which fields you want to search at the time of calling the search. Keep in mind that you should put the corresponding indices for the fields to be used.

from djorm_pgfulltext.models import SearchManager
from djorm_pgfulltext.fields import VectorField
from django.db import models

class Page(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    description = models.TextField()

    search_index = VectorField()

    objects = SearchManager(
        fields = ('name', 'description'),
        config = 'pg_catalog.english', # this is default
        search_field = 'search_index', # this is default
        auto_update_search_field = True
    )

The manager automatically injected update_search_field method to the model instance. Also, not to override the save method, you can pass the parameter auto_update_search_field = True, so the index field is updated automatically by calling the save method.

>>> Page.objects.search("documentation & about")
[<Page: Page: Home page>]
>>> Page.objects.search("about | documentation | django | home", raw=True)
[<Page: Page: Home page>, <Page: Page: About>, <Page: Page: Navigation>]

CREATE EXTENSION unaccent;
ALTER FUNCTION unaccent(text) IMMUTABLE;

Changelog

0.9

• Fix django 1.6 compatibility (transaction management).