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.

"""Views for the contact application."""

from django.shortcuts import redirect, render

from contact.forms import ContactForm
from core.functions import get_full_name


def contact_form(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        form = ContactForm(request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            form.save()
            return redirect('contact-thanks')
    else:
        initial_data = {}
        if request.user.is_authenticated():
            name = get_full_name(request.user)
            initial_data = {'name': name, 'email': request.user.email}

        subject = request.GET.get('subject')
        if subject:
            initial_data['subject'] = subject

        form = ContactForm(initial=initial_data)

    return render(request, 'contact/contact_form.html', {'form': form})