I like the search syntax from github:
is:open is:pr author:me …
Before I re-invent the wheel: Is there something like this for Django?
I tried to find something with my favorite search engine, but failed.
Hi @guettli.
For the filtering you can use django-filter.
Then a FilterSet expects (normally) a QueryDict, which you need because you have repeated is keys.
So to create that you need to parse the query string. Something like:
>>> from django.http import QueryDict
>>> query = "is:open is:pr author:me"
>>> parts = [item.split(":") for item in query.split(" ")]
>>> parts
[['is', 'open'], ['is', 'pr'], ['author', 'me']]
>>> qd = QueryDict("", mutable=True)
>>> for p in parts:
... qd.appendlist(p[0], p[1])
...
>>> qd
<QueryDict: {'is': ['open', 'pr'], 'author': ['me']}>
No doubt you’ll need to add a bit of bulletproofing. 
Hope that helps.
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