Source code for intranet.apps.search.utils

import re

from django.db.models import Q


def normalize_query(query_string, findterms=re.compile(r'"([^"]+)"|(\S+)').findall, normspace=re.compile(r"\s{2,}").sub):
    """Splits the query string in individual keywords, getting rid of unecessary spaces
    and grouping quoted words together.
    Example:

    >>> normalize_query('  some random  words "with   quotes  " and   spaces')
    ['some', 'random', 'words', 'with quotes', 'and', 'spaces']

    """
    return [normspace(" ", (t[0] or t[1]).strip()) for t in findterms(query_string)]


def get_query(query_string, search_fields):
    """Returns a query, that is a combination of Q objects.

    That combination aims to search keywords within a model by testing
    the given search fields.

    """
    query = None  # Query to search for every search term
    terms = normalize_query(query_string)
    for term in terms:
        or_query = None  # Query to search for a given term in each field
        for field_name in search_fields:
            q = Q(**{"%s__icontains" % field_name: term})
            if or_query is None:
                or_query = q
            else:
                or_query = or_query | q
        if query is None:
            query = or_query
        else:
            query = query & or_query
    return query