Django 2 by Example

Building a search view

Now, we will create a custom view to allow our users to search posts. First, we will need a search form. Edit the forms.py file of the blog application and add the following form:

class SearchForm(forms.Form):    query = forms.CharField()

We will use the query field to let the users introduce search terms. Edit the views.py file of the blog application and add the following code to it:

from django.contrib.postgres.search import SearchVectorfrom .forms import EmailPostForm, CommentForm, SearchFormdef post_search(request):    form = SearchForm()    query = None    results = []    if 'query' in request.GET:        form = SearchForm(request.GET)        if form.is_valid():            query = form.cleaned_data['query']            results = Post.objects.annotate( search=SearchVector('title', ...