Is haystack supposed to return a model object or just pieces of it?

Question

I am following tutorials that use haystack, and their view templates are set up like this

{% for result in results %}

    {% with post=result.object %}

    <h4><a href="{{ post.get_absolute_url }}">{{ result.title }}</a></h4>
    {{ post.body|truncatewords:5 }}
    {% endwith %}
    {% empty %}
    <p>There are no results for your query.</p>
{% endfor %}

This is the part that interests me

{% with post=result.object %}

and this

<h4><a href="{{ post.get_absolute_url }}">{{ result.title }}</a></h4>

typically from what I've read the syntax is

result.object.get_absolute_url

but he obviously did this

with post=result.object 

to make his work without object

My thing is this; I don't have access to get_absolute_url. I don't have the actual object returned. Only pieces of it that are obtained using this

publish = indexes.DateTimeField(model_attr='publish')
title = indexes.CharField(model_attr='title')
body = indexes.CharField(model_attr='body')

Now with those, I can do this:

{% for result in results %}
    {% with post=result.object %}
    {{result.publish}}<br>
    {{result.title}}<br>
    {{result.body}}<br><hr>
    #......

but this is not the actual object just stripped off pieces how can I get the actual object so I can use

href="{{result.object.get_absolute_url}}"

instead of having to do this

slug = indexes.CharField(model_attr='slug')

then having to do this

href="{% url 'blog:post_detail' result.slug %}

Answer 1

You do have the object, in result.object. You've used a with statement to assign that to post, but then you've ignored that variable completely.