Searching different fields of the same model without the '$ python manage.py buildwatson' command

[marcelosalloum]

Hello guys,

I am developing a kind of a search bar with watson that allows some checkboxes to choose in which fields the database search will be performed.

Can I just specify it on the run or is it needed to tun the $ python manage.py buildwatson command again? Even if I had to build it again, wouldn't be an option, since my database is getting petty large it would consume some minutes, which is not desirable from the User's point of view.

Any hints on that?

[etianen]

You can do this by creating a new search engine:

https://gist.github.com/etianen/060d1fe02d79f9bc39b5

On 20 December 2013 14:25, Marcelo Salloum dos Santos <
notifications@github.com> wrote:

Hello guys,

I am developing a kind of a search bar with watson that allows some
checkboxes to choose in which fields the database search will be performed.

Can I just specify it on the run or is it needed to tun the $ python
manage.py buildwatson command again? Even if I had to build it again,
wouldn't be an option, since my database is getting petty large it would
consume some minutes, which is not desirable from the User's point of view.

Any hints on that?

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[marcelosalloum]

Awesome, Dave! And how do I use that in my views files? Should I just try:

other_search_engine = SearchEngine("other_search_engine")
other_search_engine.search("search_term")

Cheers!

[etianen]

You should create the other search engine in your models.py, or similar,
where it will be created once globally. You then register your models with
it as normal.

You then call other_search_engine.search() in your views, as normal.

On 20 December 2013 16:40, Marcelo Salloum dos Santos <
notifications@github.com> wrote:

Awesome, Dave! And how do I use that in my views files? Should I just try:

other_search_engine = SearchEngine("other_search_engine")
other_search_engine.search("search_term")

Cheers!

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[marcelosalloum]

Great help Dave,

Thank you very much!