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john2x
john2x

Reputation: 23654

How to customize Haystack's SearchView to accept addtional URL parameters?

Given the url conf:

r'^(?P<some_var>[-a-z0-9\.]*[a-z0-9\.]\.\w+)/search/$'

How do I pass the named group some_var to Haystack's SearchView?

I'd like to override SearchView.get_results() to do an additional filter depending on some_var.

Is this the best way to do it?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1542

Answers (1)

Chris Pratt
Chris Pratt

Reputation: 239380

Subclass SearchView and override __call__ which is the "view" part of the class.

from haystack.views import SearchView

class MySearchView(SearchView):

    def __call__(self, request, some_var):
        self.some_var = some_var
        return super(MySearchView, self).__call__(request)

Then, you can use self.some_var in other methods on the class.

Upvotes: 6

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