Searching for owls

Haystack and Whoosh

$ git clone git://github.com/toastdriven/django-haystack.git$ git clone http://github.com/toastdriven/whoosh.git

Get from Git

Add haystack to INSTALLED_APPS

Set HAYSTACK_SEARCH_ENGINE and HAYSTACK_WHOOSH_PATH

Add global search_sites.py

Add search_indexes.py for each app

./manage.py reindex

SearchQuerySet for building searches

auto_query(), filter() and exclude()

Consistent with QuerySet

But feels the wrong model to me

Install from separate repo

Set HAYSTACK_SEARCH_ENGINE

Set HAYSTACK_XAPIAN_PATH

reindex

Summary

Convenient and easy to use

Easy to switch backend

Unsure about SearchQuerySet

Awkward to pull data from multiple models

Only supports one language at a time