Autocomplete

[sebfie]

Hello,

I want to do an autocompletion with django-sphinx but i failed. How can I activate the match mode? I read the doc but i didn't understand how to implement it.

Thank you

[dbrgn]

Hi Ditchou. I created an Autocomplete by using a prefixed Sphinx index and using the SPH_MATCH_EXTENDED2 mode.

sphinx.conf:

index persons_prefixed
{
  source          = persons
  path            = /var/sphinx/data/persons_prefixed
  docinfo         = extern
  charset_type = utf-8
  enable_star = 1 
  prefix_fields = name, place
  min_prefix_len = 2 
}

models.py:

class Person(models.Mode):
    ...
    search_prefixed = SphinxSearch(
        index = u'persons_prefixed',
        mode = u'SPH_MATCH_EXTENDED2',
    )
    ...

Then I used a search string like @(name) foo bar* to search the name field for a string beginning with "foo bar".

q = '@(name) foo bar*'  # generate your query here, instead of hardcoding it
persons = models.Person.search_prefixed.query(q)

You can then handle the output objects.

[sebfie]

Thank a lot, i will try this this weekend.