Django 3 Web Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

How to do it...

Let's set up a multilingual search with Elasticsearch DSL by executing the following steps:

1. Modify the settings file and add "django_elasticsearch_dsl" to INSTALLED_APPS and set the ELASTICSEARCH_DSL setting as follows:

# myproject/settings/_base.pyINSTALLED_APPS = [    # other apps…    "django_elasticsearch_dsl",]ELASTICSEARCH_DSL={    'default': {        'hosts': 'localhost:9200'    },}

2. In the ideas app, create a documents.py file with IdeaDocument for the idea search index, as follows:

# myproject/apps/ideas/documents.pyfrom django.conf import settingsfrom django.utils.translation import get_language, activatefrom django.db import modelsfrom django_elasticsearch_dsl import fieldsfrom django_elasticsearch_dsl.documents import ( Document, ...