Django Haystack - Show results without needing a search query?

Question

I would like to display all results which match selected facets even though a search query has not been inserted. Similar to how some shop applications work e.g. Amazon

Answer 1

Following form display all the result if not query string is present. Now you can add custom filters.

from your_app.forms import NonEmptySearchForm
url(r'^your_url$', 
SearchView(template='search.html',searchqueryset=sqs,form_class=NonEmptySearchForm), name='haystack_search'),

forms.py

#Overridding because the default sqs is always none if no query string is present
class NonEmptySearchForm(SearchForm):
    def search(self):
        if not self.is_valid():
            return self.no_query_found()
        sqs = self.searchqueryset.auto_query(self.cleaned_data['q'])
        if self.load_all:
            sqs = sqs.load_all()
        return sqs