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.. _wagtailsearch_backends:
========
Backends
========
Wagtail can degrade to a database-backed text search, but we strongly recommend `Elasticsearch`_.
.. _Elasticsearch: http://www.elasticsearch.org/
.. _wagtailsearch_backends_database:
Database Backend
================
The default DB search backend uses Django's ``__icontains`` filter.
Elasticsearch Backend
=====================
Prerequisites are the Elasticsearch service itself and, via pip, the `elasticsearch-py`_ package:
.. code-block:: guess
pip install elasticsearch
.. note::
If you are using Elasticsearch < 1.0, install elasticsearch-py version 0.4.5: ```pip install elasticsearch==0.4.5```
The backend is configured in settings:
.. code-block:: python
WAGTAILSEARCH_BACKENDS = {
'default': {
'BACKEND': 'wagtail.wagtailsearch.backends.elasticsearch.ElasticSearch',
'URLS': ['http://localhost:9200'],
'INDEX': 'wagtail',
'TIMEOUT': 5,
}
}
Other than ``BACKEND`` the keys are optional and default to the values shown. In addition, any other keys are passed directly to the Elasticsearch constructor as case-sensitive keyword arguments (e.g. ``'max_retries': 1``).
If you prefer not to run an Elasticsearch server in development or production, there are many hosted services available, including `Searchly`_, who offer a free account suitable for testing and development. To use Searchly:
- Sign up for an account at `dashboard.searchly.com/users/sign\_up`_
- Use your Searchly dashboard to create a new index, e.g. 'wagtaildemo'
- Note the connection URL from your Searchly dashboard
- Configure ``URLS`` and ``INDEX`` in the Elasticsearch entry in ``WAGTAILSEARCH_BACKENDS``
- Run ``./manage.py update_index``
.. _elasticsearch-py: http://elasticsearch-py.readthedocs.org
.. _Searchly: http://www.searchly.com/
.. _dashboard.searchly.com/users/sign\_up: https://dashboard.searchly.com/users/sign_up
Rolling Your Own
================
Wagtail search backends implement the interface defined in ``wagtail/wagtail/wagtailsearch/backends/base.py``. At a minimum, the backend's ``search()`` method must return a collection of objects or ``model.objects.none()``. For a fully-featured search backend, examine the Elasticsearch backend code in ``elasticsearch.py``.