admin.rst

Django Admin Search

Haystack comes with a base class to support searching via Haystack in the Django admin. To use Haystack to search, inherit from haystack.admin.SearchModelAdmin instead of django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.

For example:

from haystack.admin import SearchModelAdmin
from .models import MockModel


class MockModelAdmin(SearchModelAdmin):
    haystack_connection = 'solr'
    date_hierarchy = 'pub_date'
    list_display = ('author', 'pub_date')


admin.site.register(MockModel, MockModelAdmin)

You can also specify the Haystack connection used by the search with the haystack_connection property on the model admin class. If not specified, the default connection will be used.

If you already have a base model admin class you use, there is also a mixin you can use instead:

from django.contrib import admin
from haystack.admin import SearchModelAdminMixin
from .models import MockModel


class MyCustomModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    pass


class MockModelAdmin(SearchModelAdminMixin, MyCustomModelAdmin):
    haystack_connection = 'solr'
    date_hierarchy = 'pub_date'
    list_display = ('author', 'pub_date')


admin.site.register(MockModel, MockModelAdmin)