almost done with the search feature. I had to do a fork of haystack development version though. Still need for work on testing, app_skeleton and documentation.

Author: albanm

djity/project_skeleton/local_settings.py_tmpl

@@ -25,11 +25,6 @@ DATABASES = {{
 	}}
 }}
 
-# Haystack search engine backend configuration, see:
-# http://docs.haystacksearch.org/dev/tutorial.html
-HAYSTACK_SEARCH_ENGINE = 'whoosh'
-HAYSTACK_WHOOSH_PATH = '%s/data/whoosh/djity_index' % PROJECT_ROOT
-
 # in order to activate the django debug toolbar you will need to have it
 # installed: 'pip install django-debug-toolbar'
 DEBUG = {develop!r}

djity/project_skeleton/settings.py_tmpl

@@ -57,9 +57,6 @@ ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/media/'
 
 DAJAXICE_MEDIA_PREFIX="dajaxice" # Will create http://yourdomain.com/dajaxice/...
 
-# Haystack configuration
-HAYSTACK_SITECONF = 'search_sites'
-
 # Make this unique, and don't share it with anybody.
 SECRET_KEY = '{secret_key}'
 
@@ -125,6 +122,7 @@ INSTALLED_APPS = [
     'djity.project',
     'djity.simplepage',
     'djity.transmeta',
+    'djity.search',
 ]
 
 ###########################################
@@ -208,6 +206,34 @@ LOCALE_INDEPENDENT_PATHS = (
 
 FIXTURE_DIRS = 'data/fixtures'
 
+###########################
+# Djity indexing settings #
+###########################
+
+# Haystack search engine connections configuration
+HAYSTACK_CONNECTIONS = {{'default':{{
+        'ENGINE': 'haystack.backends.whoosh_backend.WhooshEngine',
+        'PATH': '%s/data/whoosh/djity_index/default' % (PROJECT_ROOT),
+        'STORAGE': 'file',
+        'POST_LIMIT': 128 * 1024 * 1024,
+        'INCLUDE_SPELLING': True,
+        'BATCH_SIZE': 100,
+    }}
+}}
+
+for (language,language_repr) in LANGUAGES:
+    HAYSTACK_CONNECTIONS['default_'+language] = {{
+        'ENGINE': 'haystack.backends.whoosh_backend.WhooshEngine',
+        'PATH': '%s/data/whoosh/djity_index/%s' % (PROJECT_ROOT,language),
+        'STORAGE': 'file',
+        'POST_LIMIT': 128 * 1024 * 1024,
+        'INCLUDE_SPELLING': True,
+        'BATCH_SIZE': 100,
+        'LANGUAGE': '%s' % language
+    }}
+    
+HAYSTACK_ROUTERS = ['haystack.routers.LanguageRouter']
+
 ###################################################################
 # Import local settings and those from djity apps                 #
 ###################################################################

djity/search/templatetags/__init__.py

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+from django import template
+
+register = template.Library()
+
+@register.simple_tag(takes_context=True)
+def search_result(context, result):
+    """
+    Will render a search result for haystack by using the appropriate template for each model type
+    """
+    return template.loader.render_to_string("djity/%s/%s_search_result.html"  % (result.app_label,result.model_name), {'result_url':result.object.djity_url(context)}, context)
+

djity/search/templatetags/search_result.py

@@ -10,4 +10,5 @@ def project_search(request,context=None):
     Override haystack basic_view for customization
     """    
     sqs = SearchQuerySet().filter(project=context['project'])
+    #sqs = SearchQuerySet()
     return basic_search(request, template='djity/search/search.html', searchqueryset=sqs, extra_context=context, context_class=DjityContext)

djity/search/views.py

@@ -1,16 +1,10 @@
-from haystack.indexes import *
-from haystack import site
+from haystack import indexes
 
 from djity.simplepage.models import SimplePage
 
-class SimplePageIndex(SearchIndex):
-    text = CharField(document=True, model_attr='content')
-    project = CharField(model_attr='project')
+class SimplePageIndex(indexes.SearchIndex, indexes.Indexable):
+    text = indexes.CharField(document=True, model_attr='content')
+    project = indexes.CharField(model_attr='project')
 
-site.register(SimplePage, SimplePageIndex)
-
-class SimplePageIndex2(SearchIndex):
-    text = CharField(document=True, model_attr='content')
-    project = CharField(model_attr='project')
-
-site.register(SimplePage, SimplePageIndex2)
+    def get_model(self):
+        return SimplePage

djity/simplepage/search_indexes.py

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 {% extends "djity/base.html" %}
 
+{% load search_result %}
+
 {% block body %}
     <h2>Search</h2>
 
@@ -19,7 +21,7 @@ <h3>Results</h3>
 
             {% for result in page.object_list %}
                 <p>
-                    <a href="{{ result.object.get_absolute_url }}">{{ result.object.title }}</a>
+                    {% search_result result %}
                 </p>
             {% empty %}
                 <p>No results found.</p>

djity/templates/djity/search/search.html

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+{% load highlight %}
+
+<a href="{{ result_url }}">{{ result.object.name }}</a><br>
+{% highlight result.object.content with query %}
+