gistfile1.js

var Search = function (window) {
    var data = {};

    function getSearchResults (p) {
        var params = {
                // If no tokens are passed in, use the value of the search input.
                tokens: document.querySelector('#id_q').value.split(' '),
                // Facets are currently not tacked anywhere on the page.
                selectedFacets: []
            }, queryString, key, value, k;

        // Override parameters with the object passed in.
        for (k in p) {
            params[k] = p[k];
        }

        // Build query portion from tokens.
        queryString = 'q=' + params.tokens.join('+');

        // Add each selected facet to the query string.
        for (key in params.selectedFacets) {
            value = params.selectedFacets[key];
            queryString = queryString.concat('&selected_facets=' + key + ':' + value);
        }

        // Make a request using the query string
        $.ajax({
            dataType: "json",
            url: '/search/?' + queryString,
            async: false,
            context: data,
            success: function (d) {
                data = d.map(function (e) {
                    if (e.type_ === "Product") {
                        // images, downloads, attributes, and features all come
                        // back from the server as JSON strings that need to
                        // be parsed for the time being. This will probably change
                        // at some point.
                        e.images = JSON.parse(e.images);
                        e.downloads = JSON.parse(e.downloads);
                        e.features = JSON.parse(e.features);
                        e.attributes = JSON.parse(e.attributes);
                    }
                    return e;
                });
                this.data = data;
            }
        });
        return data
    }

    return {
        getSearchResults: getSearchResults
    }
};

var search = Search({});

// Search on the value already present in the search bar
var results = search.getSearchResults();
console.log("Search based on search bar contents: ", results);

// All of the searchable things
var results = search.getSearchResults({tokens:[], selectedFacets: []});
console.log("All of the searchable things: ", results);

// All of the articles
results = search.getSearchResults({
    'selectedFacets': {
        'type__exact': 'Article'
    }
});
console.log("Articles: ", results);

// Example of searching for anything with 'Wolf Range' in the corpus text
results = search.getSearchResults({
    'tokens': ['Wolf', 'Range']
});
console.log("Anything with 'Wolf Range' in the corpus text: ", results);

// Example of searching for only products with 'Wolf Range' in the corpus text
results = search.getSearchResults({
    'tokens': ['Wolf', 'Range'],
    'selectedFacets': {
        'type__exact': 'Product'
    }
});
console.log("Products with 'Wolf Range' in the corpus text: ", results);

// Example of searching by facet for anything tagged 'Grill'
results = search.getSearchResults({
    'selectedFacets': {
        'tags_exact': 'Grill'
    }
});
console.log("Anything tagged 'Grill': ", results);

// Just the cooktops (strict search by product class)
results = search.getSearchResults({
    'selectedFacets': {
        'product_class': 'Cooktop'
    }
});
console.log("Cooktops only: ", results);