Activity 1 – Book Search

In this activity, you will finish the Book Search view that was started in Chapter 1. You will build a SearchForm that submits and accepts a search string from request.GET. It will have a select field to choose to search for a title or contributor. It will then search for all books containing the given text in their title or contributor’s first_names or last_names. You will then render this list of books in the search-results.html template. The search term should not be required, but if it exists, it should have a length of more than three characters. Since the view will search even when using the GET method, the form will always have its validation checked. If we made the field required, it would always show an error whenever the page loads.

There will be two ways of performing the search. The first is by submitting the search form that is in the base.html template and thus in the top-right corner of every page. This will only search through...