Hello! This is the second part of Django Haystack and Elasticsearch series. First you can findhere.
Now it's time to install and elasticsearch. On ubuntu you can do it as follows:
1.First install java-8
$ sudo apt-get install python-software-properties -y
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java -y
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer -y
2.Verify if it's properly installed
$ java -version
java version "1.8.0_72"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_72-b15)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.72-b15, mixed mode)
3.Now install elasticsearch itself
$ wget -qO - https://packages.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch | sudo apt-key add -
$ echo "deb http://packages.elastic.co/elasticsearch/1.7.5/debian stable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elk.list
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install elasticsearch -y
$ sudo service elasticsearch start
4.Verify if elasticsearch is running
$ curl http://localhost:9200
{
"status" : 200,
"name" : "May \"Mayday\" Parker",
"cluster_name" : "elasticsearch",
"version" : {
"number" : "1.7.5",
"build_hash" : "00f95f4ffca6de89d68b7ccaf80d148f1f70e4d4",
"build_timestamp" : "2016-02-02T09:55:30Z",
"build_snapshot" : false,
"lucene_version" : "4.10.4"
},
"tagline" : "You Know, for Search"
}
Now it's time to install to more python packages:
$ pip install django-haystack==2.4.1
$ pip install elasticsearch
After adding them to INSTALLED_APPS:
INSTALLED_APPS=['django.contrib.admin','django.contrib.auth','django.contrib.contenttypes','django.contrib.sessions','django.contrib.messages','django.contrib.staticfiles','haystack','persons']and setup up connection in settings.py:
HAYSTACK_CONNECTIONS={'default':{'ENGINE':'haystack.backends.elasticsearch_backend.ElasticsearchSearchEngine','URL':'localhost:9200','INDEX_NAME':'haystack',},}Create file called search_indexes.py in your django application folder (django_project/django_app/search_indexes.py):
fromhaystackimportindexesfrom.modelsimportPersonclassPersonIndex(indexes.SearchIndex,indexes.Indexable):text=indexes.CharField(document=True,use_template=True)first_name=indexes.CharField(model_attr='first_name')last_name=indexes.CharField(model_attr='last_name')gender=indexes.CharField(model_attr='gender')email=indexes.CharField(model_attr='email')ip_address=indexes.CharField(model_attr='ip_address')defget_model(self):returnPersonIn this file we declare indexes with will be created in elasticsearch. The first field text indicates which field is primary to be searched within. This field can be named wherever you wanted but the convention is to name it text. There is only one field in each index with document=True argument. Another argument use_template=True tells haystack to use a template for building document for an index. This document is usually located under django_project/templates/search/indexes/django_app/index_name.txt. And for this data looks like this:
{{object.title}}{{object.first_name}}{{object.last_name}}{{object.gender}}{{object.email}}{{object.ip_address}}Don't forget to add this django_project/templates/ to TEMPLATES in settings.py:
TEMPLATES=[{'BACKEND':'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates','DIRS':[os.path.join(BASE_DIR,'templates/'),],'APP_DIRS':True,'OPTIONS':{'context_processors':['django.template.context_processors.debug','django.template.context_processors.request','django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth','django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',],},},]After this add haystack.urls to urls.py:
urlpatterns=[url(r'^admin/',admin.site.urls),url(r'^search/',include('haystack.urls'))]Now it's time to create search.html in django_project/templates/search/search.html:
{% extends 'base.html' %}
{% block content %}
<h2>Person search</h2><formmethod="get"action="."class="form"role="form">
{{ form.non_field_errors }}
<divclass="form-group">
{{ form.as_p }}
</div><divclass="form-group"><inputtype="submit"class="btn btn-primary"value="Search"></div>
{% if query %}
<h3>Results</h3><div><tableclass="table table-striped table-bordered"cellspacing="0"id='result_table'><thead><tr><th>First name</th><th>Last name</th><th>Gender</th><th>Email</th><th>IP address</th></thead><tbody>
{% for result in page.object_list %}
<tr><td>{{ result.first_name }}</td><td>{{ result.last_name }}</td><td>{{ result.gender }}</td><td>{{ result.email }}</td><td>{{ result.ip_address}}</td></tr>
{% empty %}
<tr>No results found.</tr>
{% endfor %}
</tbody><table></div>
{% endif %}
</form>
{% endblock content %}
{% block extrajs %}
<script>$(document).ready(function(){$('#result_table').DataTable({"searching":false});});</script>
{% endblock %}
This is basic template for searching. I added DataTable just for better appearance.
Before we can search let's rebuild the indexes by:
$ ./manage.py rebuild_index
Now try to search something in elasticsearch itself to see if the documents are there:
$ curl -XGET http://localhost:9200/haystack/_search?pretty=true&q=first_name:Scott
{
"took" : 3,
"timed_out" : false,
"_shards" : {
"total" : 5,
"successful" : 5,
"failed" : 0
},
"hits" : {
"total" : 1000,
"max_score" : 1.0,
"hits" : [ {
"_index" : "haystack",
"_type" : "modelresult",
"_id" : "persons.person.1",
"_score" : 1.0,
"_source":{"django_ct": "persons.person", "last_name": "Harrison", "ip_address": "38.84.45.160", "email": "rharrison0@linkedin.com", "first_name": "Russell", "gender": "Male", "text": "\nRussell\nHarrison\nMale\nrharrison0@linkedin.com\n38.84.45.160\n", "id": "persons.person.1", "django_id": "1"}
},
# rest of results here...
}
Then running server and going to /search will be shown as follows:
And that's all. We got working search! You can find the repo on github. If you feel that this post was valuable please comment or send me email. Thanks!
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