gistfile1.py

# Searching on my elasticsearch instance returns an empty list
class Dish(Document):
    # ... some content removed
    search = { u'name': {'boost': 1.0,
                         'index': 'analyzed',
                         'store': 'yes',
                         'type': u'string',
                         'term_vector' : 'with_positions_offsets'},
               u'venue': {'boost': 1.0,
                          'index': 'analyzed',
                          'store': 'yes',
                          'type': u'string',
                          'term_vector' : 'with_positions_offsets'},
               u'tags': {'store': 'yes',
                         'type': u'string',
                         'index_name':'tag'},
               u'_uid': {'boost': 10.0,
                         'index': 'not_analyzed',
                         'store': 'yes',
                         'type': u'string'}}

# Init follows:
def setup_test_index():
    global index_init
    if not index_init:
        index_init = True
        try:
            conn.delete_index("dish-index")
        except Exception as e:
            print "Got exception %s, ignored" % e
        conn.create_index("dish-index")
        mapping = models.Dish.search
        conn.put_mapping("dish-type", {"properties":mapping}, ["dish-index"])
        dish = models.Dish.objects.first()
        print dish.name
        for key in mapping.keys():
            document = {}
            if key != "_uid":
                document[key] = dish[key]
            else:
                document[key] = str(dish.id)
            conn.index(document, "dish-index", "dish-type")
        conn.default_indices = ["dish-index"]
        conn.refresh()
        print [x for x in conn.search(query = TermQuery("name", "Cinnamon"))]
        import sys; sys.stdout = sys.__stdout__; import ipdb; ipdb.set_trace()
        return None