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mkelley33
mkelley33

Reputation: 5601

Does anyone have examples of integrating Haystack/Solr with Django?

Note: This question originally applied to Xapian, but due to cross-platform issues and poor understanding of Xapian I (our team) chose Solr instead.

I'm looking for snippets, tricks, tips, links, and anything to watch out for (gotchas). My technology stack includes:

Thank you all for the help and insight!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2324

Answers (1)

John Debs
John Debs

Reputation: 3784

A few notes and resources. My advice is mostly related to Haystack in general since I don't have experience with Xapian as a backend.

  1. Installing Xapian (from the Haystack docs) - note that Haystack doesn't support Xapian on its own: http://haystacksearch.org/docs/installing_search_engines.html#xapian
  2. It may be helpful to use Whoosh during development or for testing certain things, but keep in mind that it doesn't support all the features Xapian does. Haystack does a good job of failing gracefully (a warning in your console) if you try to use Whoosh with a feature it doesn't support, so switching between them is painless: http://haystacksearch.org/docs/installing_search_engines.html#whoosh

  3. A snippet from my own code of switching between Whoosh and Solr easily:

    # Haystack search settings
HAYSTACK_SITECONF = 'project.search_sites'
HAYSTACK_INCLUDE_SPELLING = True
# Haystack backend settings
HAYSTACK_SEARCH_ENGINE = 'solr' # Switch this to 'whoosh' to use that backend instead
if DEBUG:
    HAYSTACK_SOLR_URL = 'solr.development.url'
else:
    HAYSTACK_SOLR_URL = 'solr.production.url'
HAYSTACK_WHOOSH_PATH = os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, 'search_index', 'whoosh')
  4. As far as I'm aware your choice of database doesn't make a difference as long as Django supports it since Haystack uses the ORM.
  5. If you run into any trouble, Haystack's developer (Daniel Lindsley) is incredibly helpful and quick to respond. You can get help from him and others in the django-haystack Google group or the #haystack IRC channel (that is, if you don't find an answer in the official docs).

Upvotes: 3

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