How to enable faceted search in Django Oscar?

Question

I am very new to Oscar, I have been trying to use the builtin support for faceted search for my Oscar project but I have no clue (can't find any documentation).

I have :

• My elastic search running at port 9200

• Haystack settings :

  HAYSTACK_CONNECTIONS = {
      'default': {
          'ENGINE': 'haystack.backends.elasticsearch_backend.ElasticsearchSearchEngine',
          'URL': 'http://127.0.0.1:9200/',
          'INDEX_NAME': 'haystack',
      },
  }
  

• I was able to index my catalogue successfully with python manage.py rebuild_index

I tried :

• But my /search/ page still lists only categories to click through.
• I digged in deeper into the views.py in search app (from oscar) and found its MultiFacetedSearchView is rendering search/results.html
• 'search/results.html' seems to be looping over categories and rendering categories only. - - Nothing related to faceted search.

I don't know if i am missing something or what ? How should I enable faceted search for my catelogue ? [ If its a 1 step process ] Even if its not a 1 step process, then can you link me to some code snippets or documentation ( I was enable to find any ) ?

[ Also, I am new to haystack as well so may be I am asking something stupid ]

Answer 1

Got a reply from the official developers :

Official bug response for faceted search

• Oscar 0.5 doesn't have a support for faceted search as of now.
• Oscar 0.6 will be supporting faceted search.

Atleast got an answer as No otherwise I would have killed more time to find it.