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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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"""
This file contains the feed classes for the news application.
"""
from django.contrib.syndication.views import Feed

from news.models import Story
from core.functions import get_full_name
from core.functions import copyright_str


class LatestNewsFeed(Feed):
    """The Feed class for the news application"""

    title = 'SurfGuitar101.com News Feed'
    link = '/feeds/news/'
    description = 'News articles and stories from SurfGuitar101.com'
    ttl = '720'
    author_name = 'Brian Neal'
    author_email = 'admin@surfguitar101.com'

    def feed_copyright(self):
        return copyright_str()
    
    def items(self):
        return Story.objects.order_by('-date_submitted')[:5]

    def item_title(self, item):
        return item.title

    def item_description(self, item):
        return item.short_text + item.long_text

    def item_author_name(self, item):
        return get_full_name(item.submitter)

    def item_pubdate(self, item):
        return item.date_submitted

    def item_categories(self, item):
        return (item.category.title, )