Facet query not working

[chirag7jain]

I am unable to use facets when trying narrow urls.

Default search page with no query works and it displays facets options but facet queries via narrow url don't work

django-haystack -2.60 drf-haystack==1.6.1

[bentappin]

@chirag7jain I'm having the same issue. Did you manage to figure out what the problem was?

[bentappin]

If anyone else ends up here: I'm pretty sure I solved this by not using FacetCharField() but CharField(faceted=True) instead.

[chirag7jain]

@vonorm no luck

[gulci]

Leaving an answer here because this same thing happened to me.

In the documentation that walks you through setting up your ViewSet, it mentions HaystackFacetFilter:

facet_filter_backends = [HaystackFacetFilter]   # This is the default facet filter, and
                                                    # can be left out.

That comment doesn't seem to be true. If you leave that out, your facet filters won't work. You have to add HaystackFacetFilter. Adding that fixed this issue for me.