Yes indeed, we are thinking of going with fulltext search but we don't want to tide up the code to a particular backend right now, specially because this is a functionality that isn't critical at this point in time.
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Michael Bayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > more elaborate options include, building your own word index table, > integrating with an external indexing engine. but looking at the > full-text indexing options of the database itself is probably > sufficient. > > On Oct 14, 2:13 pm, Empty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Also, don't forget the match operator is available on certain >> backends: sqlite, sql server, oracle, mysql, and postgres. >> >> Michael >> >> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 1:59 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > this is somewhat frequent question, lookup the group in the past if >> > anyone has something usable. >> >> > maybe something like >> > query(cls).filter( >> > or_(*[column == value for column in alternatives] )) >> > if many values, use column.in_(values) instead of == >> >> > alternatives can come from yourtable.columns or >> > classmapper( yourclas).iterate_properties. >> >> > things to check: >> > - types, e.g. comparing strings and integers may fail or succeed >> > - primary_key = set( c.key for c in class_mapper( cls).primary_key ) >> > - relations/references maybe also be checked via .has/.any >> > e.g. references = [ p for p in >> > classmapper(yourclass).iterate_properties >> > if (p not in primary_key >> > and (not isinstance( p, PropertyLoader) #not a relation >> > or p.use_list == False )) #or a singular reference >> > ] >> > these above are just for example, do your own filtering >> >> > ciao >> > svil >> >> > On Tuesday 14 October 2008 20:26:16 Jorge Vargas wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> I'm trying to implement a "simple search" field in my application >> >> and I was wondering which will be the best way to implement it on >> >> SQLAlchemy. I have googled around and found several partial >> >> solutions but none of them convince me of being the right way. >> >> >> My use case is the following. I got a textfield search box which >> >> will post a set of words, my webapp is to take those words and do a >> >> query in *any* field of the corresponding table, and it is to say >> >> within just one table. For example I got a User class that has >> >> first_name,last_name,address_fields. And I ran a query for "John >> >> Thompson", that will bring me back a list of user objects where any >> >> of the following is valid, "John" in first_name, "John" in >> >> last_name, "John" in address, "Thompson" in first_name, "Thompson" >> >> in last_name, "Thompson" in address_field. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
