Search

Search

A common task for web applications is to search some data in the database with user input. In a simple case, this could be filtering a list of objects by a category. A more complex use case might require searching with weighting, categorization, highlighting, multiple languages, and so on. This document explains some of the possible use cases and the tools you can use.

We’ll refer to the same models used in Making queries.

Use Cases

Standard textual queries

Text-based fields have a selection of simple matching operations. For example, you may wish to allow lookup up an author like so:

>>> Author.objects.filter(name__contains='Terry')
[<Author: Terry Gilliam>, <Author: Terry Jones>]