drf-haystack-search-filter

A django-haystack search filter for Django Rest Framework.

This package uses uv for project management. To get started, ensure that uv is installed on your machine and updated to the 0.5.6 version. Detailed installation instructions for uv can be found here.

Installation

uv add drf-haystack-search-filter

Usage

Simply import the HaystackSearchFilter and use it in your API views:

from drf_haystack_search_filter.filters import HaystackSearchFilter

...

class MyAPIView(...):
    ...
    filter_backends = [HaystackSearchFilter, ...]
    ...

You can customize the search behavior by overriding the _search method.

from typing import TypeVar

from drf_haystack_search_filter import HaystackSearchFilter

T = TypeVar("T")


class MyHaystackSearchFilter(HaystackSearchFilter):
    def _search(self, request: Request, queryset: QuerySet[T], view: APIView, query: str) -> QuerySet[T]:
        # Customize the search behavior here
        return queryset.filter(
            pk__in=(
                SearchQuerySet()
                .models(queryset.model)
                .filter(content__startswith=query)
                .values_list("pk", flat=True)
            )
        )

class MyAPIView(...):
    ...
    filter_backends = [MyHaystackSearchFilter, ...]
    ...

Development

uv sync --frozen --group=development
uv run --frozen pre-commit install --install-hooks
uv run --frozen pre-commit install --hook-type=commit-msg

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! To get started, please refer to our contribution guidelines.

Issues

If you encounter any problems while using this package, please open a new issue here.