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Flask Framework Cookbook - Second Edition
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Flask Framework Cookbook - Second Edition

by Shalabh Aggarwal
July 2019
Beginner to intermediate
302 pages
9h 38m
English
Packt Publishing
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Those who have gone through the Implementing SQL-based searching recipe in Chapter 4, Working with Views, will recall that we implemented a method that performed a search on the basis of fields. However, here, in the case of Whoosh, we don't need to specify any field while searching. We can type in any text, and if this matches the searchable fields, the results will be shown, ordered in the rank of their relevance.

First, create some products in the application. Now, if we open http://127.0.0.1:5000/product-search-whoosh?q=iPhone, the resulting page will list all the products that have iPhone in their names.

There are advanced options that are provided by Whoosh where we can control which fields need to be searched for or ...
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