Merge pull request #192 from PetrDlouhy/master

Split search term by whitespaces

docs/lookups.rst

@@ -63,6 +63,15 @@ Lookup API
     :param item: An item from the search results.
     :return: A string representation of the item to be returned by the field/widget.
 
+
+.. py:method:: LookupBase.split_term(term)
+
+     Split searching term into array of subterms that will be searched separately.
+     You can override this function to achieve different splitting of the term.
+
+    :param term: The search term.
+    :return: Array with subterms
+
 .. py:method:: LookupBase.get_item_value(item)
 
     This is last of three formatting methods. The value is shown in the

selectable/base.py

@@ -36,6 +36,13 @@ def _name(cls):
         return name
     name = classmethod(_name)
 
+    def split_term(self, term):
+        """
+        Split searching term into array of subterms
+        that will be searched separately.
+        """
+        return term.split()
+
     def _url(cls):
         return reverse('selectable-lookup', args=[cls.name()])
     url = classmethod(_url)
@@ -123,11 +130,12 @@ class ModelLookup(LookupBase):
     def get_query(self, request, term):
         qs = self.get_queryset()
         if term:
-            search_filters = []
             if self.search_fields:
-                for field in self.search_fields:
-                    search_filters.append(Q(**{field: term}))
-            qs = qs.filter(reduce(operator.or_, search_filters))
+                for t in self.split_term(term):
+                    search_filters = []
+                    for field in self.search_fields:
+                        search_filters.append(Q(**{field: t}))
+                    qs = qs.filter(reduce(operator.or_, search_filters))
         return qs
 
     def get_queryset(self):