Awesome

Full word filter backend for django REST framework

Database independent (runs without regexp), easy to use full word search backend. Now works with hyphen. Do not use with default filters.SearchFilter

Install

pip install djangorestframework-word-filter

In your settings.py

INSTALLED_APPS += ('rest_framework_word_filter', )

Compatible with python 3.6+, django 3.0+

Using

Import

from rest_framework_word_filter import FullWordSearchFilter
....

and add to filter backends. Add attribute word_fields to define which fields in model will be used for search.

class FooListView(ListAPIView):
    model = Foo
    queryset = Foo.objects.all()
    serializer_class = FooSerializer
    filter_backends = (FullWordSearchFilter, )
    word_fields = ('text',)

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