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Haystack tweaks for Django 1.7.7. I had to upgrade to Haystack 2.3.1 to get it to work with Django 1.7.7. I also had to update the Xapian backend. But I ran into problems. On my laptop anyway (Ubuntu 14.0.4), xapian gets mad when search terms are greater than 245 chars (or something) when indexing. So I created a custom field that would simply omit terms greater than 64 chars and used this field everywhere I previously used a CharField. Secondly, the custom search form was broken now. Something changed in the Xapian backend and exact searches stopped working. Fortunately the auto_query (which I was using originally and broke during an upgrade) started working again. So I cut the search form back over to doing an auto_query. I kept the form the same (3 fields) because I didn't want to change the form and I think it's better that way.
author Brian Neal <bgneal@gmail.com>
date Wed, 13 May 2015 20:25:07 -0500
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"""Models for the bulletins app.
Bulletins allow the sited admins to display and manage important notices for the website.
"""

import datetime
from django.db import models
from django.db.models import Q


class BulletinManager(models.Manager):
    """Manager for the Bulletin model."""

    def get_current(self):
        now = datetime.datetime.now()
        return self.filter(
                Q(is_enabled=True),
                Q(start_date__lte=now),
                Q(end_date__isnull=True) | Q(end_date__gte=now))


class Bulletin(models.Model):
    """Model to represent site bulletins."""
    title = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    text = models.TextField()
    start_date = models.DateTimeField(db_index=True,
            help_text='Start date for when the bulletin will be active.',)
    end_date = models.DateTimeField(blank=True, null=True, db_index=True,
            help_text='End date for the bulletin. Leave blank to keep it open-ended.')
    is_enabled = models.BooleanField(default=True, db_index=True,
            help_text='Check to allow the bulletin to be viewed on the site.')

    objects = BulletinManager()

    class Meta:
        ordering = ('-start_date', )

    def __unicode__(self):
        return self.title