flask-whooshee ============== Customizable Flask - SQLAlchemy - Whoosh integration flask-whooshee provides more advanced Whoosh integration into Flask. Its main power is in the ability to index and search joined queries (which to my knowledge no other Flask - SQLAlchemy - Whoosh integration library doesn't provide). How it works ------------ flask-whooshee is based on so-called whoosheers. These represent Whoosh indexes and they are responsible for indexing new/updated fields. There are two types of whoosheers. The simple *model whoosheers*, that index fields from just one index look like this: ```python from flask import Flask from flask.ext.sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy from flask.ext.whooshee import Whooshee app = Flask(__name__) app.config['WHOOSHEE_DIR'] = /tmp/whoosheers db = SQLAlchemy(app) whooshee = Whooshee(app) @whooshee.register_model('title', 'content') class Entry(db.Model): id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True) title = db.Column(db.String) content = db.Column(db.Text) ``` Now you can use queries like this: ```python # will find entries whose title or content matches 'chuck norris' Entry.query.whooshee_search('chuck norris').order_by(Entry.id.desc()).all() ``` The more complicated custom whoosheers allow you to create indexes and search across multiple tables. Create them like this: ```python from flask import Flask from flask.ext.sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy from flask.ext.whooshee import Whooshee, AbstractWhoosheer app = Flask(__name__) app.config['WHOOSHEE_DIR'] = /tmp/whoosheers # how long should whooshee try to acquire write lock? (defaults to 2) app.config['WHOOSHEE_WRITER_TIMEOUT'] = 3 db = SQLAlchemy(app) whooshee = Whooshee(app) class User(db.Model): id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True) name = db.Column(db.String) # you can still keep the model whoosheer @whooshee.register_model('title', 'content') class Entry(db.Model): id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True) title = db.Column(db.String) content = db.Column(db.Text) user = self.db.relationship(User, backref = self.db.backref('entries')) user_id = self.db.Column(self.db.Integer, self.db.ForeignKey('user.id')) # create a custom whoosheer class @whooshee.register_whoosheer class EntryUserWhoosheer(AbstractWhoosheer): # create schema, the unique attribute must be in form of # model.__name__.lower() + '_' + 'id' (name of model primary key) schema = whoosh.fields.Schema( entry_id = whoosh.fields.NUMERIC(stored=True, unique=True), user_id = whoosh.fields.NUMERIC(stored=True), username = whoosh.fields.TEXT(), title = whoosh.fields.TEXT(), content = whoosh.fields.TEXT()) # don't forget to list the included models models = [Entry, User] # create insert_* and update_* methods for all models # if you have camel case names like FooBar, just lowercase them: insert_foobar, update_foobar @classmethod def update_user(cls, writer, user): pass # TODO: update all users entries @classmethod def update_entry(cls, writer, entry): writer.update_document(entry_id=entry.id, user_id=entry.user.id, username=entry.user.name, title=entry.title, content=entry.content) @classmethod def insert_user(cls, writer, user): # nothing, user doesn't have entries yet pass @classmethod def insert_entry(cls, writer, entry): writer.add_document(entry_id=entry.id, user_id=entry.user.id, username=entry.user.name, title=entry.title, content=entry.content) ``` Now you can search join queries like this: ```python # will find any joined entry<->query, whose User.name or Entry.title or Entry.content matches 'chuck norris' Entry.query.join(User).whooshee_search('chuck norris').order_by(Entry.id.desc()).all() ``` Project is in early alpha stage, documentation and more functionality will be landing soon. Licensed under GPLv2+