Indexers ======== Indexers provide the binding between the data in the ORM and the data which is indexed in ElasticSearch. To perform data serialization, indexers build upon the REST framework's serializers, which allow great flexibility in how you map the data in the ORM and the JSON representation which is sent to ElasticSearch. Declaring indexers ------------------ For example, let's consider the following model:: class Book(models.Model): title = models.CharField(max_length=200) You would start with a simple serializer:: class BookSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer): class Meta: model = Book fields = ( 'id', 'title', ) You can then create an indexer:: from rest_search import indexers class BookIndexer(indexers.Indexer): serializer_class = BookSerializer def get_queryset(self): return Book.objects.all() And finally you register the indexer:: indexers.register(BookIndexer) Options ------- When declaring an indexer, you can specify some additional properties: - `index`: the name of the ElasticSearch index, defaults to the model name in lowercase Index updates ------------- When you register an indexer, it will install signal handlers for save and delete events and queue updates to the ElasticSearch index. For these updates to actually be performed, either install the ```rest_search.middleware.FlushUpdatesMiddleware``` middleware or wrap your code using the ```rest_search.decorators.flush_updates``` decorator.