Search through multiple fields in Django
you can use django Q
objects to do OR
query,
or if you want to AND
your queries together just use the current lookups as kwargs
seens = Finhall.objects.filter(
name__icontains=query_string,
address__icontains=query_string
)
You should really consider full text search or haystack
(which makes search easy) because icontains
issues a %LIKE%
which is not remotely scalable
EDIT: Just noticed it is Postgres only
Apparently in django 1.10 SearchVector class was added.
Usage from the docs:
Searching against a single field is great but rather limiting. The Entry instances we’re searching belong to a Blog, which has a tagline field. To query against both fields, use a SearchVector:
>>> from django.contrib.postgres.search import SearchVector
>>> Entry.objects.annotate(
... search=SearchVector('body_text', 'blog__tagline'),
... ).filter(search='Cheese')
[<Entry: Cheese on Toast recipes>, <Entry: Pizza Recipes>]
To search same text in multiple fields you can use this :
from django.db.models import Q
class SearchAPI(APIView):
def get(self, request, search_text, format=None, **kwargs):
Model.objects.filter(Q(search_tags__contains=search_text) | Q(auto_tags__contains=search_text)