--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/custom_search/views.py	Sun Jan 19 11:25:45 2014 -0600
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+"""Custom views for searching."""
+
+from haystack.views import SearchView
+
+
+class UserSearchView(SearchView):
+    """This class passes the user making the search as an __init__ argument to
+    the search form as the keyword argument 'user'.
+
+    """
+    def build_form(self, form_kwargs=None):
+        """Pass the request.user object to the form's constructor."""
+        if not form_kwargs:
+            form_kwargs = {}
+        if 'user' not in form_kwargs:
+            form_kwargs['user'] = self.request.user
+        return super(UserSearchView, self).build_form(form_kwargs)