How to use omindex-produced Xapian database with xapian-haystack?

[Olly Betts]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 11:12:44AM +0530, Charles wrote:
> I am stuck on making xapian-haystack read our existing omindex-produced
> Xapian database.
> 
> The documentation linked above includes ...
> 
> HAYSTACK_CONNECTIONS = {
>     'default': {
>         'ENGINE': 'xapian_backend.XapianEngine',
>         'PATH': os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'xapian_index'),
>     },
> }
> 
> ... which is a single file but our omindex-produced Xapian database is
> several files

I don't know anything specifically about xapian-haystack, but almost
certainly this expects to be pointed at the directory containing those
files (since that's what Xapian itself expects).

Cheers,
    Olly