djangodjango-admindjango-search-lucene

Is there a way to search for multiple terms in admin search? django


In the django admin search bar if i had a model with a column = fruit_name and I wanted to search that column for all instances with either the fruit_name = banana or apple which would show all of the bananas and apples, how could I do that?


Solution

  • Override the ModelAdmin.get_search_results` method:

    from operator import or_
    from django.db.models import Q
    
    class MyAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
        ...
        def get_search_results(self, request, queryset, search_term):
            queryset, use_distinct = super(MyAdmin, self).get_search_results(
                                                   request, queryset, search_term)
            search_words = search_term.split()
            if search_words:
                q_objects = [Q(**{field + '__icontains': word})
                                    for field in self.search_fields
                                    for word in search_words]
                queryset |= self.model.objects.filter(reduce(or_, q_objects))
        return queryset, use_distinct