Django Haystack URL

Haystack configuration from environment variable

• Free software: MIT license

Supported Backends

Support currently exists for Simple, Whoosh, Elasticsearch, Solr, and Xapian backends.

Installation

Installation is simple:

$ pip install dj-haystack-url

Usage

Configure your Haystack connections in settings.py from HAYSTACK_CONNECTIONS (default is optional):

HAYSTACK_CONNECTIONS = {'default': dj_haystack_url.config(default='simple')}

Parse an arbitrary Haystack connection URL:

HAYSTACK_CONNECTIONS = {'default': dj_haystack_url.parse('simple')}

URL schema

Engine	Haystack Backend	URL
Simple	haystack.backends.simple_backend.SimpleEngine	simple
Whoosh	haystack.backends.whoosh_backend.WhooshEngine	whoosh:PATH [1]
Elasticsearch	haystack.backends.elasticsearch_backend.ElasticsearchSearchEngine	elasticsearch:URL/INDEX_NAME
Solr	haystack.backends.solr_backend.SolrEngine	solr:URL
Xapian	xapian_backend.XapianEngine	xapian:PATH [1]

[1]	(1, 2) Whoosh and Xapian connect to an index on the file system. The same URL format is used, omitting the hostname, and using the "file" portion as the file path to the index.