Django 3 Web Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

How it works...

Django Elasticsearch DSL documents are similar to model forms. There you define which fields of the model to save to the index that later will be used for the search queries. In our IdeaDocument example, we are saving the UUID, rating, author, categories, titles, contents, and URL paths in all languages and a picture thumbnail URL. The Index class defines the settings of the Elasticsearch index for this document. The Django class defines where to populate the index fields from. There is the related_models setting that tells after which model changes to also update this index. In our case, it is a Category model. Note that with django-elasticsearch-dsl, the indexes will be updated automatically whenever the models are saved. ...