Unity lens not included in global search

Question

I'm using the quickly unity lens template here http://developer.ubuntu.com/2012/04/how-to-create-a-wikipedia-unity-lens-for-ubuntu/ It works quite all right, but even though i have set search_in_global to true the global search calls my lens's search function without the entered search parameter, thus it returns everything it can find:

class Meta:
    name = 'myLens'
    description = 'My Lens'
    search_hint = 'Search My Lens'
    icon = 'mylens.svg'
    search_on_blank=True
    search_in_global=True #doesn't seem to work

When i type in a global search my search function is not called with the entered phrases but with a blank string/null:

def search(self, search, results):
    print "searching for %s" % search
    #...

Can anyone help me out here?

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Thanks for the quick reply! i added the proposed method like so:

def global_search(self, search, results):
    print "searching globally for %s" % search
    self.search(search, results)

unfortunally the output when i type anything in the global dash doesn't change a lot:

leopard2a5@Spieleknecht:~/Desktop/mylens$ quickly run
searching globally for 
searching for

Answer 1

If you define a function called global_search(self, phrase, results), that will be called on global searches instead of the default search(self, phrase, results). See if that gets the correct search phrase.