django-elastic 0.0.1

# UNDER DEVELOPEMNT

## django-elastic (delastic)

* Simple way to index/delete/update django models
* Queries Elasticsearch only, not hitting the Django database
* Define the mapping with elasticsearch-dsl, defaults to basic field types.
* Override field values.
* Define if a model instance should be index or not


TODO:

* Search view:
* Elasticsearch based pagination
* Elasticsearch-dsl queries
* Adds search filters and possible values in the template context

* Support multiple models per doc_type



## Requirements

* elasticsearch-dsl


## Installation

pip install django-elastic


## Settings

INSTALLED_APPS = (
...
'delastic',
)

Optional elasticsearch settings, Defaults to the following

DJANGO_ELASTIC = {
'hosts': ['localhost'],
'port': 9200,
'index': 'django',
}


## Model

An example model

class Article(models.Model):
title = models.CharField(max_length=500, blank=True, null=True)
desc = models.TextField(blank=True, null=True)
created = models.DateTimeField(blank=True, null=True)
updated = models.DateTimeField(blank=True, null=True)
image = models.URLField(max_length=500, blank=True, null=True)
url = models.URLField(max_length=500, blank=True, null=True)

active = models.BooleanField(default=True)

def __unicode__(self):
return self.title


## Indexer

The simplest example of an indexer for the model.

from delastic.indexer import ModelIndex

class ArticleIndex(ModelIndex):
class Meta:
model = Article


## View

TODO...



## Management Commands

Create mapping in elasticsearch

./manage.py create_elastic_mapping


Index models in elasticsearch

./manage.py create_elastic_index