Points of Pain

Just a running list of things that suck. Feel free to add your own.

• more robust import process. Right now it looks like this:

   for a in settings.INSTALLED_APPS:
   try:
       """
       This will call all the fun things in the search documents
       """
       module = __import__(a + '.search', {}, {}, [''])
   except ImportError, e:
       pass
  
  That sucks. Look at: django.contrib.admin.sites.register

• Unit Tests. Poor showing here, none exist.

• Document range queries. see the Solr Query Syntax

• Handle Unicode better. See:

  path:/search/bää/,
  
  File "/home/screeley/webapps/django/lib/python2.5/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 86, in get_response
  response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
  
  File "/home/screeley/webapps/django/rumination/solango/views.py", line 36, in select
  paginator = SearchPaginator(params, request)
  
  File "/home/screeley/webapps/django/rumination/solango/paginator.py", line 44, in __init__
  self.results = connection.select(params)
  
  File "/home/screeley/webapps/django/rumination/solango/solr/connection.py", line 177, in select
  print query.url
  
  File "/home/screeley/webapps/django/rumination/solango/solr/query.py", line 204, in url
  query = urllib.urlencode(params)
  
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/urllib.py", line 1250, in urlencode
  v = quote_plus(str(v))
  
  UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 1-2: ordinal not in range(128)