Hi guys, I want to create a search form for my django site. So after creating it, I input the keyword I want to search, after clicking on “Search” I’m getting:
TypeError at /search/ Related Field has invalid lookup: icontains Request Method: GET Request URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/search/?q=lordme Django Version: 1.3.1 Exception Type: TypeError Exception Value: Related Field has invalid lookup: icontains Exception Location: C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\db\models \fields\related.py in get_prep_lookup, line 141 Python Executable: C:\Python27\python.exe Python Version: 2.7.2 Below are my codes: Models: #I just paste this in models. def normalize_query(query_string, findterms=re.compile(r'"([^"]+)"|(\S+)').findall, normspace=re.compile(r'\s{2,}').sub): ''' Splits the query string in invidual keywords, getting rid of unecessary spaces and grouping quoted words together. Example: >>> normalize_query(' some random words "with quotes " and spaces') ['some', 'random', 'words', 'with quotes', 'and', 'spaces'] ''' return [normspace(' ', (t[0] or t[1]).strip()) for t in findterms(query_string)] def get_query_set(query_string, search_fields): ''' Returns a query, that is a combination of Q objects. That combination aims to search keywords within a model by testing the given search fields. ''' query = None # Query to search for every search term terms = normalize_query(query_string) for term in terms: or_query = None # Query to search for a given term in each field for field_name in search_fields: q = Q(**{"%s__icontains" % field_name: term}) if or_query is None: or_query = q else: or_query = or_query | q if query is None: query = or_query else: query = query & or_query return query Views: from myweb.meekapp.models import get_query_set def search(request): query_string = '' found_entries = None if ('q' in request.GET) and request.GET['q'].strip(): query_string = request.GET['q'] entry_query = get_query_set(query_string, ['user']) found_entries = UserProfile.objects.filter(entry_query).order_by('-pub_date') return render_to_response('search_form.html', { 'query_string': query_string, 'found_entries': found_entries }, context_instance=RequestContext(request)) Template: <html> <head> <title>Search</title> </head> <body> <form action="" method="get"> <input type="text" name="q"> <input type="submit" value="Search"> </form> </body> </html> What am I missing? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
