Django MySQL full text search

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I need to implement full text search for my Django application, running MySQL as backend.

Let's say I've got a model as follows:

class MyItem(models.Model):
    title = models.CharField()
    short_description = models.TextField()
    description = models.TextField()

I would like to have results first for search term occurences in title, then in short_description and at the end in description field. I'll be happier if I don't have to use additional modules/applications for this task.

full-text-search mysql django
6 Answers

The previously highest rated answer is deprecated. As of Django 1.10 there is no more search field lookup for MySQL databases (see the search section in the 1.10 documentation).

The release notes for 1.10 also propose a solution to this, by defining a custom lookup:

###__search query lookup

The search lookup, which supports MySQL only and is extremely limited in features, is deprecated. Replace it with a custom lookup:

from django.db import models

class Search(models.Lookup):
   lookup_name = 'search'

   def as_mysql(self, compiler, connection):
       lhs, lhs_params = self.process_lhs(compiler, connection)
       rhs, rhs_params = self.process_rhs(compiler, connection)
       params = lhs_params + rhs_params
       return 'MATCH (%s) AGAINST (%s IN BOOLEAN MODE)' % (lhs, rhs), params

models.CharField.register_lookup(Search)
models.TextField.register_lookup(Search)
user_67714030

You can use full text search in django

MyItem.objects.filter(title__search="some search text")

One thing is - you can't define a fulltext index from a Django model, you need to do in directly in a database (using PHPMyAdmin or SQL query)

See Django documentation for field lookup called search

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michael_595920

Django provides full-text functionality for PostgreSQL's only.

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