title: Open Source Search UI projects that can be consume REST services
body: <p>I'm trying to find a solution to my current problem. Let me explain: I need to find a Search UI that can consume a REST service of my choice and be highly configurable. I've searched the web and found Blacklight Search UI (written in Ruby) for Solr. I've also looked at Haystack (for django) which seems to be more promissing because somewhere in the docs i found out that you can link Haystack to your custom search engine. Out of the box Haystack supports Solr, Xapian and 2 others which i can't remember now. </p>
  
  <p>What i'm trying to find is a UI written in Java, PHP(last resort!) or Python that will allow me to specify the endpoints for my APIs and with a few configurations (i'm not expecting it to run out of the box) it should be able to query the APIs and return results. </p>
  
  <p>If that is not possible then could somebody suggest me something that gets close to what I described and allows me to write my own backend code that will link to the APIs ? A Haystack example will also do...</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>